Andrew Hurley Jorge Luis Borges

The English editions of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions are the work of Andrew Hurley, the American translator whose renderings of the Argentine master became the standard Penguin versions. This translator's name appears alongside the author's on the title page of the collected tales that made Borges one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

Hurley's Borges translations are prized for balancing the Cartesian elegance of the original Spanish with the rhythms of English prose. Used in classrooms and by specialists worldwide, they made the labyrinthine fictions of the great fabulist — Tlön, Labyrinths, The Garden of Forking Paths — essential digital-era reading.