Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo KBE was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. Wikipedia Born : August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina Died : June 14, 1986, Geneva, Switzerland Short stories : The Aleph , The Library of Babel , MORE Awards : Miguel de Cervantes Prize , MORE Quotes I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. The original is unfaithful to the translation. Jorge Luis Borges was born Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo in Buenos Aires, Argentina on this day in 1899. "The concept of plagiarism does not exist: it has been established that all works are the creation of one author, who is atemporal and anonymous." --from "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1940) included in FICCIONES Jorge Luis Borges was one of t