Alejandra Pizarnik

Alejandra Pizarnik was born on 29 April 1936 in Avellaneda, near Buenos Aires, to Jewish parents who had come from Rivne in 1934; the family that remained there was massacred. From 1960 to 1964 she lived in Paris, worked for the review Cuadernos and translated French-language authors. A Guggenheim fellow in 1968, according to EFE, she kept a diary that was published after her death. Hospitalised in her last months, she died in Buenos Aires on 25 September 1972.

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• PoetryWorks and NightsLos trabajos y las nochesAlejandra Pizarnik · 1965Literature