Olga Orozco (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1999) (real name Olga Noemí Gugliotta Orozco) was an

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. She was a recipient of the

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Biography

She was born in

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, to Carmelo Gugliotta, a Sicilian from

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, and an Argentinean mother, Cecilia Orozco. She spent her childhood in

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until she was 16 years old and she moved to

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with her parents, where she studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the

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, and later initiated her career as a writer. She started to work for a newspaper company. There she would take up varies names and publish works with different pseudonym. Orozco directed some literary publications using some pseudonymous names while she worked as a journalist. She was a member of so-called «Tercera Vanguardia» generation, which had a strong surrealist tendency. No other information was provided about the group other than the fact that it functioned like a political party. Her poetic works were influenced by Rimbaud, Nerval,

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, Miłosz and

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. Due to her background in literature she was well respected and taken seriously. Her works have been translated into various languages. Olga Orozco died in

from a heart attack at the age of 79.

Prizes

*«Primer Premio Municipal de Poesía» *«Premio de Honor de la Fundación Argentina» (1971) *«Gran Premio del Fondo Nacional de las Artes» *«Premio Esteban Echeverría» *«Gran Premio de Honor» de la SADE, «Premio Nacional de Teatro a Pieza Inédita» (1972) *«Premio Nacional de Poesía» (1988) *«Laurea de Poesia della Università di Torino» *«

Premio Gabriela Mistral The Premio Gabriela Mistral (Premio Interamericano de Cultura "Gabriela Mistral" or Gabriela Mistral Inter-American Prize for Culture) was an award made by the Organization of American States. It was created in 1979 in memory of the Nobel laureate ...

» *« Premio de Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe Juan Rulfo» (1998).

Tribute

On March 17, 2020,

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celebrated her 100th birthday with a Google Doodle.

Main works

Engravings Torn from Insomnia, trans Mary Crow, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2002. Finalist for a PEN USA Translation Award. Published with a Lannan grant. :"The poet sees poetry even in the most mundane things" (''"El poeta ve lo poético aun en las cosas más cotidianas''") *''Desde lejos (From Far Away)'' (1946) *''Las muertes (The Deaths)'' (1951) *''Los juegos peligrosos (Dangerous Games)'' (1962) *''La oscuridad es otro sol(Darkness Is a Different Sun)'' (1967) *''Museo salvaje (Wild Museum)'' (1974) *''Veintinueve poemas (29 Poems)'' (1975) *''Cantos a Berenice (Songs for Berenice)'' (1977) *''Mutaciones de la realidad (Reality Mutations)'' (1979) *''La noche a la deriva (The Drifted Night)'' (1984) *''En el revés del cielo (In Heaven's Back Side)'' (1987) *''Con esta boca, en este mundo (With This Mouth, In This World)'' (1994).

References

External links

Short Biography
(Spanish)
On her death
(Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Orozco, Olga 1920 births 1999 deaths People from La Pampa Province Argentine women poets 20th-century Argentine women writers 20th-century Argentine poets Argentine radio actresses Pseudonymous women writers Argentine people of Italian descent University of Buenos Aires alumni Surrealist poets Surrealist writers Argentine surrealist artists Argentine surrealist writers Women surrealist artists Surrealist artists 20th-century pseudonymous writers