
They say he was one of the best writers of the last century but Jorge Luis Borges never won the Nobel prize for literature.
He was famous for mixing the real and the fantastic but do the Argentinian's works stand the test of time?
Thirty years after his death, BBC News asked fellow Argentine authors to pick their favourite Borges quote and explain why we should keep reading Borges today.
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