Alejandra Pizarnik
Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and translator. She studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires and received artistic training from the surrealist painter Juan Batlle Planas. Additionally, she studied the history of religions and French literature at the Sorbonne. During her time in Paris, between 1960 and 1964, she worked for the magazine Cuadernos and some French publishers, and formed significant friendships with Julio Cortazar and Octavio Paz. In 1969, she received a Guggenheim fellowship, and in 1971 a Fullbright. She took her own life in 1972 with an overdose of seconal. Pizarnik is considered the last cursed poet.
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