Alejandra Pizarnik

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (July 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Alejandra Pizarnik]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Alejandra Pizarnik}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Alejandra Pizarnik
Photograph of Pizarnik by Sara Facio
Born	Flora Pizarnik (1936-04-29)29 April 1936 Avellaneda, Argentina
Died	25 September 1972(1972-09-25) (aged 36) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting place	La Tablada Israelite Cemetery
Occupation	Poet

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",^[1] 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".^[1]

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. She also studied history of religion and French literature at the Sorbonne. Back in Buenos Aires, 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. In 1969 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and later, in 1971, a Fulbright Fellowship.

On 25 September 1972, she died by suicide after ingesting an overdose of secobarbital.^[2] Her work has influenced generations of authors in Latin America.