Aurora Venturini
Encyclopedia
Aurora Venturini is an Argentine
novel
ist, short story writer, poet
, translator
and essayist.
, Buenos Aires
, Argentina
. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education (Instituto de Psicología y Reeducación del Menor) where she met Eva Perón
who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges
personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciación) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris
, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution
. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc
and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre
, Simone de Beauvoir
, Albert Camus
, Eugene Ionesco
and Juliette Gréco
; in Sicily she frequented the friendship of Salvatore Quasimodo
. She was married to historian Fermín Chávez
. She was Philosophy professor at the Antonio Mentruyt Normal School (Escuela Normal Antonio Mentruyt) in Banfield. She translated and wrote critical essays on poets as Isidore Ducasse, Conde de Lautréamont
, François Villon
and Arthur Rimbaud
; for the translations of the latter two authors she received the Iron Cross decoration granted by the French government. In 2007, she received the Página/12
New Novel Award for Las primas (The Cousins).
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist, short story writer, poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, translator
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
and essayist.
Biography
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La PlataLa Plata
La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the , the city proper has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants....
, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires Province
The Province of Buenos Aires is the largest and most populous province of Argentina. It takes the name from the city of Buenos Aires, which used to be the provincial capital until it was federalized in 1880...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education (Instituto de Psicología y Reeducación del Menor) where she met Eva Perón
Eva Perón
María Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in...
who was an intimate friend and with whom she worked. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
personally handed her the Initiation Award (Premio Iniciación) for her book El solitario. She studied Psychology at the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
, city in which she self-exiled for 25 years after the Liberating Revolution
Revolución Libertadora
The Revolución Libertadora was a military uprising that ended the second presidential term of Juan Perón in Argentina, on September 16, 1955.-History:...
. In Paris she lived in company of Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc was a French author.She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe. In Valenciennes, the young Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her mother's hostility and overprotectiveness...
and became a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
, Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir , was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and...
, Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
, Eugene Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
and Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco, — also Michelle – is a French actress and popular chanson singer.-Early life and family:Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal...
; in Sicily she frequented the friendship of Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets...
. She was married to historian Fermín Chávez
Fermín Chávez
Fermín Chávez was an Argentine historian, poet and journalist, born in El Pueblito, a small town near Nogoyá, province of Entre Ríos...
. She was Philosophy professor at the Antonio Mentruyt Normal School (Escuela Normal Antonio Mentruyt) in Banfield. She translated and wrote critical essays on poets as Isidore Ducasse, Conde de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse , an Uruguayan-born French poet....
, François Villon
François Villon
François Villon was a French poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison...
and Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
; for the translations of the latter two authors she received the Iron Cross decoration granted by the French government. In 2007, she received the Página/12
Página/12
Página/12 is a newspaper based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Página/12 was founded on May 25, 1987, by journalist Jorge Lanata in association with writer Osvaldo Soriano and investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky...
New Novel Award for Las primas (The Cousins).
Works
- Versos al recuerdo (1942)
- El anticuario (1948)
- Adiós desde la muerte (1948)
- El solitario (1951)
- Peregrino del aliento (1953)
- Lamentación mayor (1955)
- El ángel del espejo (1959)
- Laúd (1959)
- La trova (1962)
- Panorama de afuera con gorriones (1962)
- La pica de la Susona; leyenda andaluza (1963)
- François Villon, raíx de iracunida; vida y pasión del juglar de Francia (1963)
- Carta a Zoraida; relatos para las tías viejas (1964)
- Pogrom del cabecita negra (1969)
- Jovita la osa (1974)
- La Plata mon amour (1974)
- Antologia personal, 1940-1976 (1981)
- Zingarella (1988)
- Las Marías de Los Toldos (1991)
- Nosotros, los Caserta (1992)
- Estos locos bajitos por los senderos de su educación (1994)
- Poesía gauchipolítica federal (1994)
- Hadas, brujas y señoritas (1997)
- 45 poemas paleoperonistas (1997)
- Evita, mester de amor (1997), in collaboration with Fermín ChávezFermín ChávezFermín Chávez was an Argentine historian, poet and journalist, born in El Pueblito, a small town near Nogoyá, province of Entre Ríos...
. - Me moriré en París, con aguacero (1998)
- Lieder (1999)
- Alma y Sebastián (2001)
- Venid amada alma (2001)
- Racconto (2004)
- John W. Cooke (2005)
- Bruna Maura-Maura Bruna (2006)
- Las primas (2008)