Aurora Venturini
Aurora Venturini was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, poet, translator and essayist.
Biography
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education where she met Eva Perón who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges personally handed her the Initiation Award for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco and Juliette Gréco; in Sicily she frequented the friendship of Salvatore Quasimodo. She was married to historian Fermín Chávez. She was Philosophy professor at the Antonio Mentruyt Normal School in Banfield. She translated and wrote critical essays on poets such as Isidore Ducasse, Conde de Lautréamont, François Villon and Arthur Rimbaud; for the translations of the latter two authors she received the Iron Cross decoration granted by the French government. In 2007, she received the Página/12 New Novel Award for Las primas. She died on November 24, 2015, in Buenos Aires at the age of 92.Works
Versos al recuerdo El anticuario Adiós desde la muerte El solitario Peregrino del aliento Lamentación mayor El ángel del espejo Laúd La trova Panorama de afuera con gorriones La pica de la Susona; leyenda andaluza François Villon, raíx de iracunida; vida y pasión del juglar de Francia Carta a Zoraida; relatos para las tías viejas Pogrom del cabecita negra Jovita la osa La Plata mon amour Antologia personal, 1940-1976 Zingarella Las Marías de Los Toldos Nosotros, los Caserta Estos locos bajitos por los senderos de su educación Poesía gauchipolítica federal Hadas, brujas y señoritas 45 poemas paleoperonistas Evita, mester de amor, in collaboration with Fermín Chávez.Me moriré en París, con aguacero Lieder Alma y Sebastián Venid amada alma Racconto John W. Cooke Bruna Maura-Maura Bruna- ''Las primas''