YMMV / Jorge Luis Borges

• Award Snub: Borges never got a Nobel prize for literature. Supposedly he was in the running, but was told not to go to Chile and meet with Augusto Pinochet. Borges not only met with Pinochet, but praised him for his tough stance on communism, and was subsequently removed from the Nobel prize list.^note For the record, Pinochet's "tough stance on communism" involved the murder of between 1,200 and 3,200 Chilean citizens and the torture of tens of thousands.
• Heartwarming Moments: The end of "The Rose of Paracelsus".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "The Garden of Forking Paths" basically predicts Gamebook novels. And in an amusing case of shared names, a character in said story is named Richard Madden.

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