María Esther Vázquez

María Esther Vázquez
File:Mevazquez.jpg María Esther Vázquez
Born	1937 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation	writer, journalist
Nationality	Argentine
Spouse(s)	Horacio Armani (1964–)

María Esther Vázquez (born 1937) is an Argentine writer and journalist. She was assistant and girlfriend of Jorge Luis Borges.

Personal life

She was born in Buenos Aires in 1937. At 16 she entered the Universidad de Buenos Aires to study literature. In 1957, while working at the National Library, she met the Library's director, Jorge Luis Borges. He introduced her to his fellow writers from Sur magazine.^[1] The same year her boyfriend, critic José Luis Ríos Patrón, committed suicide by gunshot in front of her because she refused to marry him.^[2]

At the beginning of the sixties, she dated Jorge Luis Borges, and in February 1964 they announced their marriage, although a couple of months later they finally split up.^[3] They remained friends and wrote a couple of books together. Vázquez wrote a biography on Borges, ten years after his death, called Borges: Esplendor y derrota (Borges: Splendor and Defeat).

She married writer Horacio Armani in 1964.^[4]

Bibliography

• Los nombres de la muerte (1964)
• Introducción a la literatura inglesa (1965); co-written with Jorge Luis Borges.
• Literaturas germánicas medievales (1966); co-written with Jorge Luis Borges.
• El mundo de Manuel Mujica Láinez (1983)
• Desde la niebla (1988)
• Victoria Ocampo (1993)
• Borges: esplendor y derrota (1996)
• Borges, sus días y su tiempo (1999)
• Victoria Ocampo. El mundo como destino (2002)
• La memoria de los días (2004)

Notes

1. ^ Biografía de la Audiovideoteca de Buenos Aires
2. ^ Bioy Casares 2006: 359
3. ^ Bioy Casares 2006: 1001-1027
4. ^ Biografía de la Audiovideoteca de Buenos Aires

References

• "Audiovideoteca de Buenos Aires" (in Spanish). http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/com_social/audiovideoteca/literatura/vazquez_bio2_es.php. Retrieved 30 May 2010. 
• Bioy Casares, Adolfo (2006). Martino, Daniel. ed (in Spanish). Borges. Buenos Aires: Destino. ISBN 84-233-3873-8. 

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Date of birth	1937
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