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Alejandra Pizarnik (Flora Alejandra Pizarnik) was born on 29 April, 1936 in Avellaneda, Argentina, is an Argentine poet (1936–1972). Discover Alejandra Pizarnik's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 36 years old?

Popular As Flora Alejandra Pizarnik
Occupation Poet
Age 36 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 29 April 1936
Birthday 29 April
Birthplace Avellaneda, Argentina
Date of death 25 September, 1972
Died Place Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality Argentina

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1936

' 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 Universidad de Buenos Aires and worked as a writer and a literary critic for several publishers and magazines.

Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was born on April 29, 1936, in Avellaneda, a city within the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, Argentina, to Jewish immigrant parents from Rovno (now Ukraine).

Her parents were Elías Pizarnik (Pozharnik) and Rejzla Bromiker.

She had a difficult childhood, struggling with acne and self-esteem issues, as well as having a stutter.

She adopted the name Alejandra as a teenager.

As an adult, she had a clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia.

1955

A year after entering the School of philosophy and letters at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published her first book of poetry, La tierra más ajena (1955).

She took courses in literature, journalism, and philosophy at the university of Buenos Aires School of Philosophy and Letters, but dropped out in order to pursue painting with Juan Batlle Planas.

1956

Pizarnik followed her debut work with two more volumes of poems, La última inocencia (1956) and Las aventuras perdidas (1958).

She was an avid reader of fiction and poetry.

Beginning with novels, she delved into more literature with similar topics to learn from different points of view.

This sparked an early interest in literature and also for the unconscious, which in turn gave rise to her interest in psychoanalysis.

Pizarnik’s involvement in Surrealist methods of expression was represented by her automatic writing techniques.

Her lyricism was influenced by Antonio Porchia, French symbolists—especially Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé—, the spirit of romanticism and by the surrealists.

She wrote prose poems, in the spirit of Octavio Paz, but from a woman's perspective on issues ranging from loneliness, childhood, and death.

Pizarnik was bisexual/lesbian but in much of her work references to relationships with women were self-censored due to the oppressive nature of the Argentinian dictatorship she lived under.

1960

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: Los trabajos y las noches, Extracción de la piedra de locura and El infierno musical as well as a prose work titled, La condesa sangrienta.

Between 1960 and 1964 Pizarnik lived in Paris, where she worked for the magazine Cuadernos and other French editorials.

She published poems and criticism in many newspapers, translated Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aimé Césaire, Yves Bonnefoy and Marguerite Duras.

She also studied French religious history and literature at the Sorbonne.

There she became friends with Julio Cortázar, Rosa Chacel, Silvina Ocampo and Octavio Paz.

1962

Paz even wrote the prologue for her fourth poetry book, The Tree of Diana (1962).

A famous sequence on Diana reads: "I jumped from myself to dawn/I left my body next to the light/and sang the sadness of being born."

1964

She returned to Buenos Aires in 1964, and published her best-known books of poetry: Los trabajos y las noches (1965), Extracción de la piedra de la locura (1968) and El infierno musical (1971).

1968

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968, and in 1971 a Fulbright Scholarship.

1969

In 1969 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and later, in 1971, a Fulbright Fellowship.

1972

On September 25, 1972, she died by suicide after ingesting an overdose of secobarbital.

Her work has influenced generations of authors in Latin America.

Pizarnik died by suicide on September 25, 1972, by overdosing on secobarbital, at the age of 36, on the same weekend she left the hospital where she was institutionalized.

She is buried at the Cementerio Israelita in La Tablada, Buenos Aires Province.