Orfila Bardesio

Orfila Bardesio was born on 18 May 1922 in Montevideo. In 1939, at the age of seventeen, she was presented to the public in the university amphitheatre and published a first book of writings composed between the ages of eleven and sixteen. She attended the literary gatherings held in a building in the centre of Montevideo. In 1950 she married the poet Julio Fernández and settled with him in Treinta y Tres, where she taught literature; widowed in 1974, she returned to Montevideo. The only Catholic of the generation of 1945, four times awarded a prize by the ministry, she died in Montevideo on 14 October 2009.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryEl ciervo radianteOrfila Bardesio · 1984not translated into EnglishLiterature