Jorge Luis Borges was born August 24, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  He was a genius scholar, writer, critic, and an inspiration to many writers and artists.  "Borgesian" societies have emerged after his death that try to continue the convoluted, paradoxical sense that his writing evoked.  

A small essay entitled Borges_and_I  illustrates his twist of mind and ability to turn a phrase. His works are generally quite short and yet complete.  According to Borges:

The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.
-- 10 November 1941

Another resource on line that has good biographical information (provided the above quote)  and also pursues the "Borgesian" artistic future is the Garden_of_the_Forking_Path_website. Forking Path refers to the fascination and fear Borges had of labyrinths--the garden variety and the simple one created by positioning two mirrors at an angle. He invites the reader into these mazes, and from time to time points the way.