Jorge Luis Borges, 86, Argentine writer

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 15, 1986 | Copyright information

GENEVA (AP) Jorge Luis Borges, 86, an Argentine whose poems and prose fantasies won him acclaim as one of the greatest modern writers, died yesterday of liver cancer.

Critics compared Mr. Borges to Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka, and he was a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.

But he won scores of other prizes and his works were translated from Spanish into more than 20 languages.

Mr. Borges had lived for three months in Geneva, where he once attended school, but had kept his address secret.

Mr. Borges, who had been blind for nearly 30 years, was survived by ...

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