An Arabic king abandons a Babylonian king in the desert after being locked in a maze in one story by this author, while a lack of Arabic words for tragedy and comedy stymie the title character's attempts to explain the concepts in another.  
An Arabic king abandons a Babylonian king in the desert after being locked in a maze in one story by this author, while a lack of Arabic words for tragedy and comedy stymie the title character's attempts to explain the concepts in another.  In addition to "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" and "Averroes's Search", he wrote one story in which Nils Runeburg writes books about the title apostle "as God and the Real Savior" and "as the human counterpart of Jesus" and wrote about a young medical student in Argentina reading the Bible to an illiterate family in another story.  This author of "Three Versions of Judas" and "The Gospel According to Mark" wrote a story about a point in space that contains all other points and is in the cellar of Daneri's house, and one story in which Yu Tsan kills Dr. Stephen Albert to convey the name of a city to be bombed.  For 10 points—name this author of "The Aleph" and "The Garden of the Forking Paths".
An Arabic king abandons a Babylonian king in the desert after being locked in a maze in one story by this author, while a lack of Arabic words for tragedy and comedy stymie the title character's attempts to explain the concepts in another.  
{Jorge} Luis {Borges} [accept “The {Two Kings} and the {Two Labyrinths}” before “{this author}”]