Luke XXIII

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899. He died on June 14, 1986 in Geneva—where, he wrote, he had felt “mysteriously happy”—and is buried in the Cemetery of Kings there. (updated 7/2009)

“A Master in Montreal: A 1968 Interview with Jorge Luis Borges” by Don Bell appeared in AGNI 52.

Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes are co-translators of the forthcoming book of Jorge Louis Borges’s collected poems from Viking Penguin. They are both poets and professors of English at Pomona College. (updated 1994)