Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo (1903 in Argentinian - 1993 in Argentina) is a writer E Argentine.
Biography
It was born in Argentine in 1903 to the 550 from the street Viamonte with Buenos Aires, it is the junior by a family of six children. His/her parents, Manual Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre, resulting all two easy families from the aristocratic elite Argentinian, offer to him with the Adolescence to continue its studies with Paris. Silvina Ocampo accepts the offer with joy and excitation: she undertakes to follow courses of Dessin and Peinture under the supervision of Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Leger, two Artiste S famous painter S. It is by the discovery of this new artistic world that it composes its literary first Essai S .
When Ocampo finishes its studies, his/her older sister, Victoria Ocampo, influential woman and editor of the Argentinian Magazine to success On , invites it to write for it. Thus, for one period of approximately twenty-five years, Silvina Ocampo written for the magazine of his/her sister some article S, Poème S and Nouvelle S. It is via this magazine that Silvina Ocampo is made known near the general public and that it succeeds in cutting a place among famous the writer S of the Río of Plata.
As of its entry in the literary world, it binds Amitié with much of writers South-American S who will become later famous, such Jorge Luis Borges. It is in company the latter that it meets, at the 28 years age, the man of its life: Adolfo Bioy Casares, another Argentinian writer, whom she marries in 1940 and with which she will have a girl: Marta.
Compared to his/her colleagues and Friendly S, Silvina Ocampo is a reserved woman who, in spite of her Succès, refuses “médiatiser”. The Notoriété of Silvina Ocampo is thus a long time remained in the shade of those of its faithful assistants. In spite of that, she collaborates with Borges and Casarès with two Anthologie S of the fantastic literature of the time, is Antología of will literatura fantástica in 1940 and Antologìa poética argentina in 1941.
The field of predilection of Silvina Ocampo remains, in spite of the publication of these two anthologies, the Poésie and the writing of Nouvelle S. In its career of écrivaine, it publishes seven Recueil S of news between 1937 and 1988 and translated a good score of works of its favorite authors, like Poe and several others. One counts among his most outstanding works: Los that mercy odian (detective novel, written in collaboration with Adolfo Bioy Casares) in 1946, Autobiografía of Irene (collection of news) in 1948, Los numbers (poems) in 1953 and the furia there otros cuentos (collection of news) in 1959.
Silvina Ocampo dies out in its residence in 1993.
Rewards
Silvina Ocampo receives a great number of prices throughout its career of écrivaine. In 1953, it is seen offering the second price to the National competition of poetry of Argentina for its collection Los numbers, and the first price, with this same competition nine years later, for its poem Lo amargo por dulce . It is also distinguished during the handing-over of the prices of Premio Club of los XIII in 1988 for Cornelia frente Al espejo . She also sees herself giving the price of the Gold PEN by PEN Club, a Association International E of writers which defends the Freedom of expression.