Editing Jorge Luis Borges (section)

===Translations by Borges===
Borges was a notable translator. He translated works of literature in English, French, German, [[Old English language|Old English]], and [[Old Norse]] into Spanish. His first publication, for a Buenos Aires newspaper, was a translation of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s story "[[The Happy Prince and Other Stories|The Happy Prince]]" into Spanish when he was ten.<ref name="Bloom" /> At the end of his life he produced a Spanish-language version of a part of [[Snorri Sturluson]]'s ''[[Prose Edda]]''. He also translated (while simultaneously subtly transforming) the works of, among others, [[Ambrose Bierce]], [[William Faulkner]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Day |first1=Douglas |author-link= Douglas Day | date=1980 |title=Borges,Faulkner,and The Wild Palms|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26436092 |journal=Virginia Quarterly Review |volume=56 |issue=1 |publisher=University of Virginia|jstor=26436092 }}</ref> [[André Gide]], [[Hermann Hesse]], [[Franz Kafka]], [[Rudyard Kipling]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[Walt Whitman]], and [[Virginia Woolf]].<ref group='Note' name='c'>Notable translations also include work by [[Herman Melville|Melville]], Sir [[Thomas Browne]], and [[G. K. Chesterton]].</ref> Borges wrote and lectured extensively on the art of translation, holding that a translation may improve upon the original, may even be unfaithful to it, and that alternative and potentially contradictory renderings of the same work can be equally valid.<ref>Jorge Luis Borges, ''This Craft of Verse'', [[Harvard University Press]], 2000. pp. 57–76. ''Word Music and Translation'', Lecture, Delivered 28 February 1968.</ref> Borges employed the devices of literary forgery and the review of an imaginary work, both forms of modern [[Pseudepigraphy|pseudo-epigrapha]].