Ivonne Aline Bordelois (born 5 November 1934), is an Argentine poet, essayist, and linguist.

Career

Ivonne Bordelois graduated from the at the University of Buenos Aires, later studying literature and linguistics at the Sorbonne. She worked at the magazine ''

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'' and conducted interviews and publications with

Alejandra Pizarnik Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been ...

for various national and international publications. In 1968 she received a scholarship from the

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(CONICET) and moved to Boston to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There she received her doctorate in linguistics in 1974, with Noam Chomsky as the director of her thesis. From 1975 to 1988 she held a chair of linguistics at the Ibero-American Institute of Utrecht University, obtained through international competition. In 1982 she received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. In 2004 she received the Konex Award Merit Diploma in the Literary Essay category, and served on the award's jury in 2006, 2014, and 2016. In 2005 she was awarded the '' La Nación''- prize for her essay ''El país que nos habla''.

Works

* * * * * * * * Co-author with Fabio Grementieri. * * * * Co-author with Cristina Piña. *

References

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