Silvina Ocampo | |
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 Ocampo in 1959 | |
| Born | 28 July 1903 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 14 December 1993 (aged 90) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Resting place | La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires |
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| Relatives | Victoria Ocampo (sister) |
Silvina Ocampo (28 July 1903 – 14 December 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist.[1] Ocampo's friend and collaborator Jorge Luis Borges called Ocampo "one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, whether on this side of the ocean or on the other."[2] Her first book was Viaje olvidado (1937), translated as Forgotten Journey (2019), and her final piece was Las repeticiones, published posthumously in 2006.
Before establishing herself as a writer, Ocampo was a visual artist.[3] She studied painting and drawing in Paris where she met, in 1920, Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico, forerunners of surrealism.[4]
She received, among other awards, the Municipal Prize for Literature in 1954 and the National Poetry Prize in 1962.
- ^ Power, Chris (2 November 2015). "A brief survey of the short story: n beso combinando ambos líquidos. Silvina Ocampo". The Guardian.
- ^ Ocampo, Silvina (2015). Thus Were Their Faces. Introduction by Helen Oyeyemi; preface by Jorge Luis Borges. NYRB Classics. ISBN 9781590177679.
- ^ Cobas Carral, Andrea. "Modos de refundarse. Los casos de Borges, Bioy y Silvina Ocampo" en María Pia López (comp.) La década infame y los escritores suicidas. Buenos Aires, Paradiso, 2007: 1.
- ^ Ocampo, Silvina. "Prólogo" Antología: Cuentos De La "nena Terrible" Ed. Patricia Nisbet Klingenberg. Doral, FL: Stockcero, 2013. xiv