Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, popularly known as Jorge Luis Borges, was a renowned writer, essayist, and poet from Argentina. He is counted among one of the greatest heroes of the country in the field of literature. Borges’s imagination and innovative literary skills were commendable. After receiving the first International Publishers' Prize, the Prix Formentor in 1961, he grabbed the attention of many. Borges was fluent in speaking multiple languages. His works are admired as the “character of unreality in all literature”. Borges was greatly influenced by European culture and English literature. He offered a noticeable contribution to the magical realism genre. Also, critic Angel Flores who used this term for the first time, marked the starting of this movement with Borges’s “Historia universal de la infamia.” Some of the most appreciated works are “Ficciones” and “The Aleph”. These are basically collection of short stories based on the themes like dreams, labyrinths, libraries, fictional writers, religion and God.
