In 1961, the Argentine poet and short story writer Jorge Luis Borges won the Formentor Prize for literature. Borges’ stories were characterised by mind-bending plots often featuring labyrinths, dreams ...

Most people first encounter Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges piecemeal. This isn't much of a surprise, considering how good he was at writing plummy, ultracondensed short stories, many of which – ...

A los residentes de esta capital les gusta presumir de sus numerosas librerías y editoriales independientes. Samanta Schweblin recomienda a los lectores anglosajones los libros que narran su ciudad.

The niece of Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson talks about her iconic Moomin books - which have been published in more than 60 languages. And finally, we hear the personal story of young Nepalese ...

I was a young man when I fell into the dream… In a magical reality, inside a labyrinth, the famed Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges gives a lecture. At first, it seems to be about anatomy, but that ...

An extract from Pope Francis’s memoir tells of a young classmate who committed murder, and of his friendship with writer Jorge Luis Borges Pope Francis. Behind, with classmates at the Escuela Téníca ...

DIED. Jorge Luis Borges, 86, blind Argentine author of poetry and fiction, one of Latin America’s greatest writers; of liver cancer; in Geneva. Borges was an original: his poetry was somber and ...