Estela Canto
Estela Canto (September 4, 1915 – June 3, 1994) was an Argentine writer, journalist and translator best known for her relationship with Jorge Luis Borges. Life Canto was the descendant of an old Uruguayan family. Her ancestors included some important military men. Her brother Patricio Canto was also a writer, and authored the essay El caso Ortega y Gasset about the Spanish philosopher.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/publicacionesbanrep/boletin/boleti1/bol36/rese1.1.htm |title=the Art of Majestic Arrogance by Rubén Jaramillo, at Luis Ángel Arango National Library |access-date=2011-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204144939/http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/publicacionesbanrep/boletin/boleti1/bol36/rese1.1.htm |archive-date=2008-12-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Estela held various jobs during the late 1930s and early 1940s, including as a dancer-for-hire at a local dance hall, where men would pay women "by the dance" to serve as their partners. In 1944, at the house of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo, Canto was introduced to Jorge Luis Borges. Borges was, at this time, already well regarded in literary circles. Initially he took little notice of Canto. Though she observed him with admiration and curiosity, she had no interest in forming romantic attachments to intellectuals. On their second meeting at Bioy's house, Borges asked her out. After an evening of dancing and chatting they discovered, among other things, a common admiration for George