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Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Carolina Storni was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.
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culture · Argentine poet (1892–1938) · diarist · poet · journalist · writer · teacher · sociologist · actor · also Alfonsina Storni, Tao Lao, Storni
Born 29 May 1892 · Died 25 October 1938 · Q238557
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2024· 2 entries
Quotidiano.Net: Anniversario. Alfonsina Storni
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RSI: Alfonsina Storni
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2009· 1 entry
Juan María Solare composed a cycle of songs with texts by Alfonsina Storni: Viejas palabras (which consists of the songs Viaje, El sueño, Cuadrados y ángulos and ¿Qué diría la gente
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1938· 2 entries
Died 1938-10-25.
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Found out that the breast cancer had reappeared
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1935· 1 entry
Storni may have discovered a lump on her left breast and decided to undergo an operation
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1927· 1 entry
When Quiroga met Maria Elena Bravo and started his second marriage
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1925· 1 entry
Storni did not go with him on the advice of Benito Quinquela Martin, who told her: “You’re going with that psycho
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1923· 1 entry
Nosotros published a survey aimed at members of the “new literary generation
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1920· 1 entry
Languidez, one of her publications was awarded the First Municipal prize as well as the second National Literature Prize
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1917· 1 entry
Storni receives the Premio Annual del Consejo Nacional de Mujeres
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1916· 2 entries
In Emin Arslan's literary magazine La Nota, where she was a permanent contributor from 28 March until 21 November 1919
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And later started writing for the magazine Caras y Caretas while working as a cashier in a shop
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1912· 1 entry
Moved to Buenos Aires, seeking the anonymity afforded by a big city
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1910· 1 entry
Receives her title as "Maestra Rural"
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1908· 1 entry
Storni returned to live with her mother, who had remarried and was living in Bustinza (Santa Fe Province)
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1907· 1 entry
Her interest in dance led her to join a traveling theatre company, which took her around the country
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1906· 1 entry
Her father died and she began working in a hat factory to help support her family
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1896· 1 entry
The family returned to San Juan, Argentina, and a few years later, in 1901, moved to Rosario because of economic issues
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-05-29.
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1891· 1 entry
Following the advice of a doctor, he returned with his wife to Switzerland, where Alfonsina was born the following year; she lived there until she was four years old
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