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

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

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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. The same year her boyfriend, critic José Luis Ríos Patrón, committed suicide by gunshot in front of her because she refused to marry him.

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. 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.