María Esther Vázquez Explained

María Esther Vázquez
Birth Date:	4 August 1937^[1]
Birth Place:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Death Place:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation:	Writer, journalist

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]

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 in 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

Her honors included:^{[4] [1]}

• 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)

References

• Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20110911211226/http://audiovideotecaba.gob.ar/areas/com_social/audiovideoteca/literatura/vazquez_bio2_es.php. 11 September 2011. Audiovideoteca de Buenos Aires. Spanish. 30 May 2010. Baires.
• Book: Bioy Casares, Adolfo. Adolfo Bioy Casares

. Adolfo Bioy Casares. Daniel. Martino. Borges. 2006. Destino. Buenos Aires. Spanish. 84-233-3873-8. Borges.

Notes and References

1. Web site: María Esther Vázquez. Fundación Konex. 6 August 2017. es.
2. Web site: María Esther Vázquez: maestra del cuento y protagonista de una época. La Nación. 26 March 2017.
3. News: Vallejos. Soledad. Victoria revivida. 6 August 2017. Página 12. 23 August 2002. es.
4. News: Ruiz. Mariana. Falleció María Esther Vázquez, una escritora argentina hija de gallegos para quien la humildad "es la raíz de la galleguidad". 6 August 2017. Crónicas de la Emigración. 1 April 2017. es.
5. Book: O'Ryan. Mariana Casale. The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon. 2014. MHRA. 9781781880777. 53. 6 August 2017. en.
6. News: María Esther Vázquez: "Cada uno agarra un Borges a su medida". 6 August 2017. El Telégrafo. 13 June 2016. es-LA.
7. News: Gómez Carrasco. Margarita. Entrevista a María Esther Vázquez: Estrategias de la pena. 6 August 2017. El Gran Otro. 4 November 2014. es-ES.