Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Days before his death, Jorge Luis Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life. Accompanying this final interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Together, this thought-provoking collection provides a fresh look at one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

Jorge Luis Borges (b. 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 1986, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Argentine short-story writer, poet, essayist and translator. He was one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century, inspiring generations of writers in the US and UK as well as his native Latin America. He is most famous for the short-story collections Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949).