Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Storni was born on 22 May 1892 in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland, and lived in Argentina from 1896. Orphaned of her father in 1906, she worked, acted in a travelling troupe, then obtained in 1910 a teaching diploma and taught in Rosario; she became a single mother in 1912, according to the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. A teacher and journalist in Buenos Aires, she wrote in the magazines. She took her own life in Mar del Plata on 25 October 1938.

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• PoetryOcreAlfonsina Storni · 1925not translated into EnglishLiterature