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According to the text to which EFE had access, the national court of first instance in civil matters 11 dictated as heirs the children of Kodama’s deceased brother: Mariana del Socorro, Martín Nicolás, María Victoria, Matías and María Belén.
“These have been the only people presented in the proceedings invoking inheritance rights,” says the declaration of heirs signed by Judge Alejandra Abrevaya.
Heritage and preservation of the work
Kodama’s five nephews appeared as heirs in the succession file in Justice when the succession for the inheritance of the Borges widow was left vacant because she died, on March 26, without having made a will.
“A new stage begins,” lawyer Fernando Soto told EFE, who considered that “the intellectual property rights of Borges’s work will be well defended and his work will be duly disseminated because the nephews have an excellent relationship with the Jorge Luis Borges International Foundation”, of which he is a regular member.
Kodama, who died at the age of 86, was the owner of movable and immovable property and the universal heir of Borges.
Borges’s widow was the owner of the copyright of all the literary work, in addition to being the owner of all the medals, decorations and distinctions received by the Argentine writer, original manuscripts, drawings of his authorship and his library. personal (intervened by Borges himself), among many other assets of extremely high cultural, historical and patrimonial value.
Kodama, the diffuser of Borges’ work
Borges’s literary work is registered under the ownership of Kodama, in the National Registry of Intellectual Property of the National Directorate of Copyright (DNDA).
María Kodama, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1937, met Borges (1899-1986) when she was 16 years old and he was 54, when she bumped into him on the street, at the exit of a bookstore. She told him that she was going to study literature and he invited her to study Old English together, from which time they were never separated again.
Despite the fact that in 1967 Borges married another woman, Elsa Astete, María Kodama continued to see the Argentine writer and they finally got married in 1986, months before the writer’s death from liver cancer in Geneva.
Two years after the death of the creator of “El Aleph”, in 1988, María Kodama created the Jorge Luis Borges International Foundation in Buenos Aires, whose headquarters house countless personal objects.