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Iris Pavón (1906–1951) was an
Iris Pavón (1906–1951) was an Argentine
Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...
poet and writer.
Life
Pavón was born in 1906 in the smallpampas
The Pampas (; from Quechua 'plain'), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all o ...
town of Loberia. She later relocated to Deán Funes, Cordoba and then to Cruz del Eje, where she came to maturity as a writer.
Anarchist in her beliefs, Pavón was very vocal on issues of social justice. She took up the pen on behalf of the Bragado
Bragado is a city in the center-northwest provinces of Argentina, province of Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the head town of Bragado Partido. The city is 210 km west-southwest from Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires City, not f ...
case of 1931 and the Sacco-Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco (; April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (; June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parm ...
case in the US. She contributed to radical journals such as '' Reconstruir''. She was imprisoned in 1944 alongside her partner Marcos Dukelsky.
Among her poems is "Huesos", dedicated to a worker who died during the construction of the Cruz del Eje dam. A collection of her texts, from the 1920s to the 1940s, was published two years after her death under the title ''Pasión de Justicia''. It was reprinted in 2019.
She died in September 1951.
References
1906 births 1951 deaths category:Argentine writers Argentine poets Argentine anarchists Writers from Buenos Aires Province {{Argentina-writer-stub