Writer
Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1954–1970
- Schools and movements
- Italian Neorealism and AfterLatin American Cinema
Directors worked with
Biography
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers, and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magical realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
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Awards and honours
International
- Prix Formentor 1961
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1962
- Commander of the Order of the Sun of Peru 1965
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1965
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1967
- Jerusalem Prize 1971
- Alfonso Reyes International Prize 1973
- Edgar Awards 1976
- commander of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins 1976
- doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University 1978
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1979
- Grand Officer of the Order of the Falcon 1979
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize 1979
- World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement 1979
- Balzan Prize 1980
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca 1980
- Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise 1983
- Knight of the Legion of Honour 1983
- Grand Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword 1984
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1984
- honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia 1985
- National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism 1999
- honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- honorary doctorate of the National University of San Marcos
National / local
- Gran Premio de Honor de la SADE 1944
- diamond Konex award 1984
2 films on this site
- Días de odio 1954 · Leopoldo Torre Nilsson · IMDb 6.7 · Writer
- The Spider's Stratagem 1970 · Bernardo Bertolucci · IMDb 6.8 · Writer