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] 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.
[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.