Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell Explained

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]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mackintosh, Fiona Joy. Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik. 2003. Tamesis Books. 978-1-85566-095-3. 136–.
  2. Book: Smith, Verity. Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. 14 January 2014. Routledge. 978-1-135-96026-1. 52–.
  3. Web site: Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell. Fundacion Konex. 11 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141019025545/http://www.fundacionkonex.com.ar/b1653-elizabeth__azcona_cranwell. 19 October 2014. dead.