Borges' full name was Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges.The Argentine writer was born on August 24, 1899.
Borges already knew how to read and write at the age of 4.
Jorge Luis Borges was raised in a bilingual family in Buenos Aires. It was so natural for him to speak two languages that it was not until he was a grown child that he realized that Spanish and English were two different languages.
Borges' only childhood friendship was his own sister Norah.
In 1938, Borges was hit in the head. While he was recovering, he almost died of blood poisoning. After this experience Borges changed his way of thinking, and began to write in a new style, one that he would not abandon for the rest of his life.
Borges was blind for the last 30 years of his life. Something that didn't stop him from publishing.
Although Jorge Luis Borges was a world-renowned writer, he was never awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bioy Casares and Borges wrote works together under the pseudonym 'H. Bustos Domecq'.
For literary critics The Aleph is their best collection of short stories.
Borges never sympathized with the government of Juan Domingo Perón, whom he accused of being a dictator.
The Peronist government, which also did not sympathize with Borges, appointed him 'Inspector of Poultry Markets'.
Jorge Luis Borges was shy and stuttered when speaking, problems he had to overcome with medical help.
After the overthrow of the Peronist government, Borges was elected director of the National Library in 1955.
Borges' idea of paradise was that of a huge library.
In 1962 the film version of his tale Man in the Pink Corner was made.
Weeks before he died, Borges married his secretary, Maria Kodama.
In 1999 the government of Argentina issued a series of coins commemorating the centennial of Jorge Luis Borges' birth.
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