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Jorge Luis Borges (24 August 1899 - 14 June 1986) was an Argentine writer whose output included short stories, essays, poetry, literary criticism, and translations. He was influenced by Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Schopenhauer, G. K. Chesterton, Leopoldo Lugones, and R. L. Stevenson. In addition to his short stories, for which he is most famous, Borges wrote poetry, essays, several screenplays, a considerable volume of literary criticism, prologues and reviews. He edited numerous anthologies and was a prominent translator of English, French and German-language literature into Spanish (and of Old English and Norse works as well)...