August 13, 2026

Which 20th-century Argentine writer, famous for short stories like The Aleph, worked as a literary editor at a Buenos Aires newspaper supplement in the 1930s, and loved the town of Adrogué so much he named a book of poems in its honour?

A Jorge Luis Borges
B Henrik Ibsen
C Tennessee Williams
D Pascal Rambert

Jorge Luis Borges spent childhood summers in the small town of Adrogué, near Buenos Aires, and later dedicated a book of poems to it. His Buenos Aires editorial work at the Revista Multicolor de los Sábados helped shape his early collection A Universal History of Infamy.

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