Jorge Luis Borges
(1886-1986), Argentina. Writer

The blind man of Hispanic literature, Borges was a giant among contemporary writers. His fantastic and magical approach to writing created innumerable followers and made his prose and poetry, the literature to emulate in contemporary Hispanic literature.

For Borges, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature". Thus he wrote his fantastic tales with metaphysical concerns over the human existence, the universe and time.

His most recurring symbols are mirrors, labyrinths and dreams. Fictions, 1945, Labyrinths, 1947, Other Inquisitions, 1952, The Aleph, 1949, and Poems, 1967 are his most famous works.