Reading... Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina)

Instituto Cervantes Manchester and Leeds Poetry's Club ends the year with a session dedicated to Argentine poetry with the poet and translator Alejandra Pizarnik, a leading figure in surrealist poetry. The session will be coordinated by Diana Cullell, professor at the University of Liverpool.

Alejandra Pizarnik was born in Buenos Aires in 1936 into a family of Jewish immigrants of Russian and Polish descent. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires and, during the 1960s, at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was influenced by her friends Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, the lyricism of Antonio Porchia, French symbolists such as Rimbaud and Mallarmé, and the surrealists. His publications include La tierra más ajena (1955), La última inocencia (1956), Las aventuras perdidas (1958), Árbol de Diana (1962) and El infierno musical (1971).