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1899 – 1986 · Buenos Aires
Jorge Luis Borges
Born Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and grew up among books. His father, a lawyer and teacher, kept a large library of English works. His grandmother was English too, so the boy read in two languages from the start. In 1914 the family traveled to Europe, and the First World War kept them there. Borges finished school in Geneva, then joined young avant-garde poets in Spain before coming home in 1921.
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