Ana María Barrenechea (6 March 1913 – 4 October 2010) was an Argentine writer,

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, and

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Biography

Barrenechea completed her studies in

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at the Higher Institute of Teachers of Buenos Aires, being taught by Amado Alonso and Pedro Henríquez Ureña, both of whom pushed Barrenechea towards research and literary criticism. In 1953, she was awarded the

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(which she would receive again in 1968 to study

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) by

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to study abroad in the United States at the

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, where she completed her doctorate three years later. She returned to Buenos Aires and began to study Spanish grammar in Argentina and abroad in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States, at one point teaching at

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. From 1958 to 1966, Barrenechea taught at the University of Buenos Aires, was a member of the Coordinated Study Project of the Language of the Primary Iberian Cities and Peninsula (PILEI), and

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's Advisory Commission on Philology between 1964 and 1966 and 1984 to 1987.

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* 1913 births 2010 deaths Argentine women writers Linguists from Argentina Argentine people of Basque descent Writers from Buenos Aires Argentine literary critics Argentine women literary critics Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires {{SouthAm-linguist-stub