Alejandra Pizarnak

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Alejandra Pizarnak

Country

Brazil

Birth - Death

1936 - 1972

Occupation

Writer

Notable Achievements

Description

Poet, prose, translator. Award-winning, including Fullbright and Guggenheim scholarships. However, depression led to early death by suicide, and reflected in her poetry. Bisexual. From 1960 to 1964 lived in Paris. There she worked for the journal Cuadernos, sat on the editorial board of the magazine Les Lettres Nouvelles, and participated in the Parisian literary world.