For “her outstanding contribution to culture”, the poet and translator Alejandra Pizarnik was declared an illustrious citizen post mortem of the province of Buenos Aires by the Buenos Aires government, which today promulgated Law 15,448, sanctioned on April 12 by the Legislature.
The daughter of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Pizarnik was born in the Buenos Aires municipality of Avellaneda on April 29, 1936. She studied Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at the age of 24 decided to move to Paris, France, where he worked in the magazine Cuadernos and in various publishers.
There, he published poems and reviews in various newspapers and, in addition, he translated into Antonin Artaud and Marguerite Duras. In addition, he studied history of religions and French literature at the Sorbonne.
During this period, he met several writers with whom he forged a lifelong friendship, including Julio Cortazar, Rosa Chacel and Octavio Paz.
Upon his return to Buenos Aires, having matured as a poet, Pizarnik published three of his major volumes: Los trabajos y las noches, Extractación de la piedra de locura, and El infierno musical, as well as his prose work The Bloody Countess.
In the late sixties and early seventies, Alejandra Pizarnik He received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Fullbright Fellowship in recognition of the quality of his work.
The writer suffered various depressive crises and anxiety problems, and had a suicide attempt in 1970, after which she was admitted to the Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital.
On September 25, 1972, the poet died of an overdose, after ingesting a large number of pills.
Pizarnik developed one of the most amazing literary works of the 20th century and, after the return of democracy in Argentina, his figure experienced a boom, which led to the first compilation of his texts: Shadow texts and latest poems (1982), followed by his first biography, Alexandra (1991), by Cristina Piña. More recently, they have also been published diaries (2013).
The declaration of the poet as an “illustrious citizen” post mortem was promoted by the Buenos Aires deputy Debora Silvina Indartefrom the Front of All.
Source: Ambito
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