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HarperCollins imprint the Friday Project has signed world rights to a biography of novelist Jorge Luis Borges.
Norman Thomas di Giovanni will write Georgie & Elsie – Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife: The Untold Story, exploring the writer’s life with his life.
Giovanni worked with Borges as a translator in the 1960s and 1970s and knew the couple well. The book will be published in May 2014.
The Friday Project has previously published Borges’ The Roman Tales.
Publisher Scott Pack said: ““It tells the story of Borges and his marriage and divorce in a way that no one has been able to do before. It is an intimate biography of a literary giant.”