Elvira Orphée Explained

Elvira Amanda Orphée (29 May 1922^[1] in San Miguel de Tucumán – 26 April 2018)^[2] was an Argentine writer.^[3]

Biography

Elvira Orphée was born in San Miguel de Tucumán. Her father was a chemist of Greek origin, and her mother was a teacher. Often ill as a child, she learned to write early. After attending a convent school, she left aged sixteen for Buenos Aires after her mother died.^[4] She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Sorbonne in Paris. Orphée has lived in France, Italy, Spain and Venezuela. She married artist Miguel Ocampo,^[3] the nephew of Victoria Ocampo, in Paris but divorced him after she returned to Argentina. She published her first novel Dos veranos (Two summers) in 1956.^[5]

Orphée has published short stories and articles in various publications such as El Tiempo, Revista de Occidente, Asomante, Cuadernos, Razon and Zona Franca e Imagen.^[6]

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts in 1988.^[7]

Selected works

Sources:^{[5] [6]}

• Uno, novel (1961), Honourable mention in the Fahril Editorial Literary Contest
• Aire tan dulce (Air so sweet), novel (1966), second prize in the Municipality of Buenos Aires
• En el fondo, novel (1969), first prize in the Municipality of Buenos Aires
• La última conquista de El Ángel (El Angel's last conquest) (1984)
• La muerte y los desencuentros (Death and missteps), novel (1990), received the Regional Prize
• Ciego del cielo (Heavenly blind), stories (1991)

Notes and References

1. Web site: El universo Orpheé. eternacadencia.com.ar.
2. Web site: A los 96 años murió la escritora Elvira Orphée. La. Gaceta. www.lagaceta.com.ar.
3. Book: André, María Claudia. Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. 1269–76. Bueno, Eva Paulino. 2014. 978-1317726340.
4. Book: Fister, Barbara. Barbara Fister

   . Barbara Fister. Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. registration. 1995. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-28988-0. 235. Orphée, Elvira.

5. Book: Miller, Jane Eldridge. Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. 244. 2001. 0415159806.
6. Book: Fares, Gustavo C.. Contemporary Argentinean Women Writers: A Critical Anthology. 141. Hermann, Eliana Cazaubon. 1998. 0813015537.
7. Web site: Elvira Orphée. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402101619/http://www.gf.org/fellows/11009-elvira-orphee. 2 April 2015.