Estela Canto

Estela Canto was born in the year 1919; she died in June of the year 1994. She was an argentine writer and a translator, and she is best known for the relationship she had with Jorge Luis Borges.

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Life

Estela Canto was the descendant of an old Uruguayan family. Her ancestors were more of crucial military men. Estela Canto’s brother called Patricio Canto was also a writer and he wrote the assay called El caso Ortega y Gasset, which was about the Spanish philosopher.

Estela Canto did many jobs during the late 1930s and the early part of the 1940s. In the year 1944, at the house of Adolfo BioyCasares and SilvinaOcampo, Estela Canto was introduced to Jorge Luis Borges. At that time Jorge was al;ready a prominent man in the field of literature.

Works

Ø  El muro de mármol 1945

Ø  El retrato y la imagen 1950 ("The Portrait and the Image")

Ø  El hombre del crepúsculo 1953

Ø  El estanque 1956

Ø  La noche y el barro 1962

Ø  Isabel entre lasplantas 1966

Ø  Los otros, lasmáscaras 1973

Ø  La horadetenida 1976

Ø  El jazmín negro 1978

Ø  Ronda nocturna 1980

Ø  Detrás de la medialuna 1982

Ø  Borges a contraluz 1989

Awards

Ø  1945 Premio Municipal for El muro de mármol

Ø  1945 PremioImprenaLópezporEl muro de mármol