Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)

Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) was a poet, fiction writer, translator, and playwright. Born into an elite Buenos Aires family, she studied art in Paris under Fernand Léger and surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico before marrying the Buenos Aires author Adolfo Bioy Casares. Ocampo published several volumes of short stories and poetry, as well as collaborative anthologies with Bioy Casares and close friend Jorge Luis Borges. NYRB Poets will be publishing a collection of Ocampo’s poetry in the fall of 2014. Helen Oyeyemi is a British author. She has written four novels, including White is for Witching , which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and most recently Boy, Snow, Bird . Daniel Balderston is the Mellon Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the editor of Variaciones Borges , and a scholar of Borges, Southern Cone literature, Brazilian literature, and Latin American gender and sexuality studies. Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, poet, and essayist. His fiction, which drew on his interest in mathematics and detective stories, made him one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. English-language anthologies of his stories include Ficciones , The Aleph , and Labyrinths .

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