 After the death in 1975 of Borges's ninety-nine-year-old mother, with whom he had lived all his life, Kodama became Borges’s literary secretary and had the opportunity—at the invitation of Borges's caretaker, "Fanny"—to assist him as a blind old man in his frequent travels abroad during his later years, when he received many invitations by institutions from around the world.Kodama helped Borges write, as he had lost his sight.She collaborated with him in "Breve antología anglosajona" (1978) and "Atlas" (1984, an account of their travels together) and in the translation of the "Younger Edda" by Snorri Sturluson.