Borges

[ bawr-hes ]

noun

1. Jor·ge Luis [hawr, -he lwees], 1899–1986, Argentine poet, short-story writer, and philosophical essayist.

Borges

/ ˈborxes /

noun

1. BorgesJorge Luis18991986MArgentinianWRITING: poetWRITING: short-story writerWRITING: literary scholar Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"

Example Sentences

Valadao, whose parents emigrated from the Azores, speaks Portuguese and Spanish, as a result of growing up on a dairy farm alongside Mexican farmworkers, Borges said.

From Los Angeles Times

Borges isn’t offended by the mural, saying the creative response to the city’s municipal code helped create a better relationship among neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times

It projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers, drawing comparisons to contemporaries like Thomas Pynchon, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov.

From New York Times

A lobbyist and former state Republican chairman, Matt Borges, got five years for his role.

From Seattle Times

While it’s far from unique — everyone from Miguel Cervantes to James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges to Kurt Vonnegut have played with metafiction — that doesn’t negate its potential.

From Los Angeles Times