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María Esther Vázquez was born in Buenos Aires, where she studied philosophy and literature. She met Borges in 1964 and, after a close relationship, which almost concluded in the marriage for which his family was hoping, she became his friend and collaborator in An Introduction to English Literature and Medieval German Literature, both written in 1966.  She is also the author of four books of short stories —Los Hombres de la Muerte (The Men of Death) written in 1964, Para un Jardín Cerrado (For a Closed Garden), 1970, Invenciones sentimentales (Sentimental Inventions), 1980 and Desde la Niebla (From the Fog), 1988—, a book of poems titled Noviembre y en ángel (Charming November), written in 1968, and various books about Argentinean writers, similar to those she had already written about Borges —Everness, written in 1965, Borges: imágenes, memorias, diálogos (Borges: Images, Memories, Dialogues), 1977, and Borges, sus días y su tiempo (Borges, His Day and Age),1985—. She has also collaborated in the script of six art videos, participated in numerous international congresses on literature, and, in 1988, she was officially knighted by the Italian Republic. Since 1972 she collaborates with La Nación, Instantáneas, and other Argentinean and foreign publications.