Jorge Luis Borges died 40 years ago today in Geneva, Switzerland. As Argentina’s most renowned writer, his life and work were featured throughout the Herald’s reporting on Argentine culture during the 20th century.
To honor his memory, we went back to the archive in order to share the obit written by Edward Shaw, published on June 15, 1986, the day after he passed away.
A U.S.-born curator and artist, Shaw was also a reporter for the Herald in the 1980s and a founding member of the Borges Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. He died in 2022.
His text, an exquisite compendium of Borges in his later years, offers a tender and lucid portrayal of the man behind the genius.
Read the original story below.
