Elvira Orphée

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

Elvira Orphée, 1981

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[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)
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References
  1. "El universo Orpheé". eternacadencia.com.ar.
  2. Gaceta, La. "A los 96 años murió la escritora Elvira Orphée". www.lagaceta.com.ar.
  3. André, María Claudia; Bueno, Eva Paulino (2014). Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. pp. 1269–76. ISBN 1317726340.
  4. Fister, Barbara (1995). "Orphée, Elvira". Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-313-28988-0.
  5. Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 244. ISBN 0415159806.
  6. Fares, Gustavo C.; Hermann, Eliana Cazaubon (1998). Contemporary Argentinean Women Writers: A Critical Anthology. p. 141. ISBN 0813015537.
  7. "Elvira Orphée". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
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