Emma Barrandeguy (8 March 1914 – 19 December 2006) was an Argentine writer, journalist, poet, storyteller and playwright.
Barrandeguy was born in 1914 in
Gualeguay, Entre Ríos
Gualeguay is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, on the Gualeguay River, about 226 km from the provincial capital Paraná and 234 km north-west from Buenos Aires. It has a population of about 39,000 inhabitants as per the ...
. Her mother read poetry to her when Barrandeguy was very small. In 1937, she moved to
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
where she resided for 22 years. In 1939, she married an American circus acrobat, who left on an oil tanker and never returned to Buenos Aires. They had no children. At the age of 50, she began studies at the university.
Her first poems were published when she was 18. Her first book was published when she was 50; it contained poems which she wrote in a diary. Barrandeguy had various jobs, including archivist, writer, journalist, librarian, and jewelry sales. She published articles about astrology,
and served as the private secretary of
Salvadora Medina Onrubia de Botana,
the spouse of
Natalio Botana
Natalio Félix Botana Miralles (Sarandí del Yí, September 8, 1888 – San Salvador de Jujuy, August 7, 1941), was an Uruguayan journalist and entrepreneur who founded the Argentine newspaper ''Crítica'' in 1913.Abós, Álvaro: El Tábano: Vida ...
. For 20 years, she directed the cultural section in a local newspaper in Gualeguay, ''El Debate Cry''. She also for the Gualeguaychú regional newspaper, ''La Verdad'', and worked as a translator for the publishers of ''El Ateneo'' and ''
Emecé''.
Barrandeguy worked at the Institute of Cancer and died of cancer in 2006 at age 92 in Gualeguay.
Awards
She was awarded the Premio Fray Mocho in 1970 for the play "Amor saca amor"; and in 1985, for her novel "Crónicas de medio siglo".
Selected works
* Poesías completas, 2009
* Mastronardi-Gombrowicz: una amistad singular, 2004
* Habitaciones, 2002
* Salvadora, una mujer de Crítica, 1997
* Camino hecho, 1996
* Crónica de medio siglo, 1986
* Refracciones, 1986
* Crónica de medio siglo, 1984
* Los pobladores, 1983
* No digo que mi país es poderoso, 1982
* Amor saca amor (teatro), 1970
* El andamio (novela), 1964
* Cartas, 1943
* Las puertas, 1964
* Poemas, 1934–35
See also
*
List of Argentine writers
References
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1914 births
2006 deaths
20th-century Argentine women writers
20th-century Argentine writers
Argentine women journalists
Argentine women poets
Argentine dramatists and playwrights
People from Gualeguay Department
Argentine women dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Argentine poets
20th-century dramatists and playwrights