Giselda Zani (1909 in
Italy
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– 1975 in
Argentina
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) was a
Uruguay
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an
poet
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,
short story
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writer and art critic of Italian origin. A member of the ''
Generación del 45
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'', she had a career as a journalist and diplomat in
Buenos Aires
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in Argentina.
Works
* ''La costa despierta'' (The Wide-awake Coast) (1930)
* ''Por vínculos sutiles'' (Tenuous Links) (1958), a collection of short stories
Awards
*
Emecé Literary Prize (1957)
Zani, Giselda
(1909-1975)
See also
* List of contemporary writers from northern Uruguay
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
* Uruguayan literature
Uruguayan literature has a long and eventful history.
Beginnings
Literature properly speaking starts in Uruguay with the country-flavoured poetry of Bartolomé Hidalgo, 1788-1822. The two leading figures of the Romantic period are Adolfo Berr ...
References
External links
Giselda Zani
in the Ibero-American Institute
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's catalogue
1909 births
1975 deaths
20th-century Italian short story writers
20th-century Italian women writers
20th-century Italian writers
20th-century Uruguayan poets
20th-century Uruguayan women writers
20th-century journalists
Italian art critics
Italian women art critics
Italian emigrants to Uruguay
Uruguayan art critics
Uruguayan diplomats
Uruguayan journalists
Uruguayan women journalists
Uruguayan women short story writers
Uruguayan women poets
Women diplomats
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