text: One of this author's books opens with a description of an invisible Malay creature in the Tower of Victory called the A Bao A Qu.
full_question: One of this author's books opens with a description of an invisible Malay creature in the Tower of Victory called the A Bao A Qu. He created a character who suffers septicemia after gashing his head on a beam while excitedly planning to read a copy of the Arabian Nights and later resigns himself to death in a knife fight. In another story by this man, Jaromir (*) Hladik is given a year to finish his masterpiece before he is shot by a Nazi firing squad. This author of the Book of Imaginary Beings and "The Secret Miracle" wrote about Juan Dahlmann in "El Sur" and penned a story about a universe consisting of an infinite number of hexagons containing all possible books. For 10 points, name this blind writer of "The Library of Babel," which can be found in Ficciones.
first_sentence: One of this author's books opens with a description of an invisible Malay creature in the Tower of Victory called the A Bao A Qu.
raw_answer: Jorge Luis Borges [or Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges]