Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell | |
Birth Date: | 10 March 1933 |
Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Death Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Occupation: | Poet, storyteller, writer, translator, and literary critic |
Language: | Spanish |
Genre: | Surrealism |
Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell (10 March 1933 – 2 December 2004) was an Argentine poet, storyteller, writer, translator, and literary critic. She was born and died in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was on the faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires. She was a teacher, teaching workshops and seminars. She was also a literary critic for the newspaper La Nación and a translator. She translated the poems of William Shand, the collected poems of Dylan Thomas, and the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Azcona Cranwell was the "poeta hermana" of Alejandra Pizarnik,[1] and a contemporary of Joaquín Giannuzzi and Maria Elena Walsh.[2] She was the 1984 Konex Award laureate.[3]