Alejandra Pizarnik

Photograph of Pizarnik by [[Sara Facio]] Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".

Pizarnik studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and worked as a writer and a literary critic for several publishers and magazines. She lived in Paris between 1960 and 1964, where she translated authors such as Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy. She also studied history of religion and French literature at the Sorbonne. Back in Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published three of her major works: ''Works and Nights'', ''Extracting the Stone of Madness'', and ''The Musical Hell'' as well as a prose work titled ''The Bloody Countess''. In 1969 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and later, in 1971, a Fulbright Fellowship.

On 25 September 1972, she died by suicide after ingesting an overdose of secobarbital. Her work has influenced generations of authors in Latin America. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Poemas : antología / by Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

    Published 1982
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    Poesía (1955-1972). / by Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

    Published 2014
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    Prosa completa / by Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

    Published 2008
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    Poesía : (1955-1972) / by Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

    Published 2008
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    Poesía completa (1955-1972) / by Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

    Published 2021
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    Cartas / by Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

    Published 2016
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    Nueva correspondencia de Pizarnik / by Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

    Published 2014
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    25 poetas argentinos contemporáneos /

    Published 2005
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    Poesía argentina contemporánea /

    Published 1978
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