María Esther Vázquez
Argentine writer
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María Esther Vázquez (4 August 1937 – 25 March 2017)[2] was an Argentine writer and journalist, best known as a collaborator and biographer of Jorge Luis Borges and Victoria Ocampo.[3]
María Esther Vázquez | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 August 1937[1] Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 25 March 2017 (aged 79) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupations | Writer, journalist |
| Spouse |
Horacio Armani
(m. 1964; died 2013) |
Biography
She was born in Buenos Aires in 1937 into a family of Galician descent. Her father was born in Cambados, and her mother in Vilanova de Arousa. At 16, she entered the Universidad de Buenos Aires to study literature.[4] 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.[5]
At the beginning of the '60s, she dated Borges, and in February 1964 they announced their marriage, although several months later they split up. 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).[5][6]
Personal life
She married poet and writer Horacio Armani on 14 December 1965. They were married for nearly 50 years before his death in 2013.[7]
She died in Buenos Aires in March 2017 of a cerebral hemorrhage.[4]
Honors
- 1988: Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 1987: Konex Award
- 1995: Comillas Prize of the Tusquets Publishing House in Spain
- 1997: Prize of the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires
- 2004: Konex Award
- 2012: Rosalía de Castro Award from the PEN Club of Galicia
- 2012: the Gold Medal of Emigration from the Federation of Spanish Societies of Argentina
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)