1. Leonor Fanny "Norah" Borges Acevedo, was an Argentine visual artist and art critic, member of the Florida group, and sister of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
16 Facts About Norah Borges
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Norah Borges was the daughter of a lawyer, Dr Jorge Guillermo Borges and Leonor Acevedo Suarez.
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Norah Borges climbed to the top of the roof, traipsed through the trees, and I followed along with more fear than enthusiasm.
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Norah Borges studied with the classical sculptor Maurice Sarkisoff at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Geneva.
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In Switzerland, Norah Borges wrote and illustrated her first poetry book, Notas lejanas.
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In Spain, Norah Borges first visited Barcelona, and then, in 1919, moved to Palma, Majorca.
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Norah Borges illustrated a number of his books and dedicated a portrait to him in her book Espanoles de tres mundos.
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In March 1921, Norah Borges returned by boat to Buenos Aires.
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Also in 1924, Norah Borges created a woodcut cover for the Mexican journal, Antena.
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Norah Borges wrote as an art critic for Anales de Buenos Aires under the pseudonym Manuel Pinedo.
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Norah Borges worked as a journalist and painter until her death in 1998, but she gave away much of her work and did not care for regular art exhibitions.
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Norah Borges's arrest was odd because her paintings didn't seem to have any political context before.
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Norah Borges even refused to make statements about her political views.
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Norah Borges worked as a graphic artist on other books by Spanish emigrants in Argentina, including Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Rafael Alberti and Leon Felipe and illustrated the works of her brother and other Argentine writers like Victoria Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Lange and Julio Cortazar.
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Norah Borges designed the scenery of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca using the techniques of oil, watercolor, engraving, woodcut, and drawings in ink and pencil.
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Norah Borges died in Buenos Aires in 1998, aged 97, and was buried in the family vault in the La Recoleta Cemetery.