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Alejandra Pizarnik

1936 - 1972

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alejandra Pizarnik is the 1,969th most popular writer (down from 1,804th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 108th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Among writers, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 1,969 out of 7,302. Before her are James Herriot, Agnes Smedley, Marin Držić, Clark Ashton Smith, Nicholas Sparks, and Methodius of Olympus. After her are Avitus of Vienne, William Moulton Marston, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Éric Zemmour, Juan Goytisolo, and Christy Brown.

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Among people born in 1936, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 151. Before her are Dan Inosanto, A. S. Byatt, Harry Bild, Adolfo Nicolás, Klaus Kinkel, and Théo Sarapo. After her are David Yonggi Cho, Ziaur Rahman, Andrew Grove, Ennio Antonelli, Zeynab Khanlarova, and Volodymyr Holubnychy. Among people deceased in 1972, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 78. Before her are Viktor Barna, Paul Goodman, Maximus V of Constantinople, Stephen Timoshenko, Prescott Bush, and Harold Rainsford Stark. After her are Ross Bagdasarian, Watchman Nee, Chen Yi, Joseph Paul-Boncour, Brandon deWilde, and Richard Courant.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 125 out of 1,154. Before her are Victoria Ocampo (1890), Horacio Pagani (1955), José Félix Uriburu (1868), Arturo Frondizi (1908), Alejandro Scopelli (1908), and Attilio Demaría (1909). After her are Enrique Guaita (1910), José Manuel Moreno (1916), Gaspar Noé (1963), Manuel Ferreira (1905), Javier Mascherano (1984), and Mario Bunge (1919).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 7. Before her are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Manuel Puig (1932), Silvina Ocampo (1903), and Victoria Ocampo (1890). After her are Alberto Manguel (1948), Joseph Kessel (1898), María Kodama (1937), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), and Juan Gelman (1930).

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