1. Alejandra Pizarnik lived in Paris between 1960 and 1964, where she translated authors such as Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aime Cesaire and Yves Bonnefoy.
16 Facts About Alejandra Pizarnik
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Alejandra Pizarnik studied history of religion and French literature at the Sorbonne.
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Back in Buenos Aires, Alejandra 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.
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Alejandra Pizarnik's work has influenced generations of authors in Latin America.
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Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was born on 29 April 1936, in Avellaneda in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area of Argentina, to Jewish immigrant parents from Rovno in the Russian Empire, Elias Alejandra Pizarnik and Rejzla Bromiker.
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Alejandra Pizarnik had a difficult childhood, struggling with acne and self-esteem issues, as well as having a stutter.
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Alejandra Pizarnik took courses in literature, journalism, and philosophy, but dropped out in order to pursue painting with Juan Batlle Planas.
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Alejandra Pizarnik followed her debut work with two more volumes of poems, The Last Innocence and The Lost Adventures.
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Alejandra Pizarnik was an avid reader of fiction and poetry.
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Alejandra Pizarnik wrote prose poems, in the spirit of Octavio Paz, but from a woman's perspective on issues ranging from loneliness, childhood, and death.
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Between 1960 and 1964 Alejandra Pizarnik lived in Paris, where she worked for the magazine Cuadernos and other French editorials.
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Alejandra Pizarnik published poems and criticism in many newspapers, translated Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aime Cesaire, Yves Bonnefoy and Marguerite Duras.
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Alejandra Pizarnik studied French religious history and literature at the Sorbonne.
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Alejandra Pizarnik was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968, and in 1971 a Fulbright Scholarship.
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Alejandra Pizarnik died by suicide on 25 September 1972 after overdosing on secobarbital, at the age of 36, on the same weekend she left the hospital where she had been institutionalized.
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Alejandra Pizarnik is buried at the Cementerio Israelita in La Tablada, Buenos Aires Province.