Dora Isella Russell Explained

Dora Isella Russell (May 15, 1925November 8, 1990) was an Argentine-born Uruguayan poet and journalist. Her works include: Sonetos (1943), El canto irremediable (1946), Oleaje (1949), El otro olvido (1952), Antología poética (1952), Del alba al mediodía (1954), Los barcos de la noche (1954), Tiempo y memoria (1964), El tiempo del regreso (1967), Los sonetos de Simbad (1970), Poemas hispanoamericanos (1977), and Memorial para Don Bruno Mauricio de Zabala (1977).^[1]

Biography

Dora Isella Russell was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 15, 1925.Her family moved to Montevideo, Uruguay in 1933, where she grew up. She received her education at Escuela y Liceo Elbio Fernández and then continued her studies in literature.^[2]

Russell taught as an associate professor. She was associated with the Nacional de Investigaciones y Archivos Literarios (National Institute for Literary Research and Archives). She was a disciple and secretary of the Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou.^[3]

Her activity as a journalist was carried out with articles published in the Uruguayan newspaper El Día and in intellectual magazines in the United States, Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Egypt.^[4] She was also the director of the Sunday Supplement of El Día and served as director of Museo Zorrilla.

Awards and honours

For her career as a poet, she received recognition by the government of Lebanon and the National Order of Merit of Ecuador.^[5]

Publications

• Sonetos (1943)
• El canto irremediable (1946)
• Oleaje (1949)
• El otro olvido (1952)
• Antología poética (1952)
• Del alba al mediodía (1954)
• Los barcos de la noche (1954)
• Tiempo y memoria (1964)
• El tiempo del regreso (1967)
• Los sonetos de Simbad (1970)
• Poemas hispanoamericanos (1977)
• Memorial para Don Bruno Mauricio de Zabala (1977)
• Los sonetos de Carass Court (1983)

References

Bibliography

• Pickenhayn, Jorge Oscar. La obra poética de Dora Isella Russell. Montevideo : Barreiro y Ramos, 1994. p. 60. (in Spanish)

External links

• Dora Isella Russell at Autores.uy

Notes and References

1. Asociación General de Autores del Uruguay (2000). Catálogo Biográfico de Autores Uruguayos. Uruguay: AGADU. p. 273. (in Spanish)
2. Web site: Elbio . El . Ex Alumnos de Honor o Destacados - El Elbio . www.elbiofernandez.edu.uy . 27 August 2021 . es . 19 September 2014 . 19 September 2016 . https://archive.today/20160919110058/http://www.elbiofernandez.edu.uy/ex-alumnos/exalumnos-de-honor-o-destacados/ . dead .
3. Web site: Juana de Ibarbourou por Dora Isella Russell Prologo de "Antología" Colección de Clásicos uruguayos V. 123 año 1967 . espaciolatino.com . 27 August 2021 . es.
4. Uruguayos contemporáneos: noticias biográficas. T4. Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo. 1965. p. 56-57. (in Spanish)
5. Web site: Russell, Dora Isella . www.scriptorium.una.ac.cr . 27 August 2021 . es . 27 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210827155201/http://www.scriptorium.una.ac.cr/index.php/uruguay/russell-dora-isella . dead .