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Borges' wrote mainly poetry but wrote a famous fourteen page short story in 1971 entitled "The Congress". One of his more famous poems was titles "El Golem". Borges released a collection of his short stries titled "A Universal History of Infamy". His experience of the Argentinian tumultuous political scene compelled him to write "The Congress". Also, in his later years he went blind and this left him with lots of time and capacity to think on the nature of man.

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Borges was active as a writer during both World wars, the Great Depression and Aregentina's Coup d'etat in 1976. This event was a major turning point in Argentina's history when the military overthrew president Peron. it occured on March 24, 1976

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He is from Argentina. He was born on August 24, 1899 and died on June 14,1986. He was raised and taught at home in Palmera Argentina until he was 11. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland and stayed there until 1921 where he studied at the College of Geneva. He is said to have pioneered the literary movement of magical Realism.