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Alfonsina Storni
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Alfonsina Storni (May 29 1892 October 25 1938) was one of the most important Ibero-American poets of the postmodernism movement.
Alfonsina was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland to an Argentine beer industrialist living in Switzerland for a few years. There, Alfonsina learned to speak Italian. After the family's business had failed, it opened a tavern in the city of Rosario, Argentina, where Alfonsina worked at a variety of chores.
A year and a half after her friend Quiroga committed suicide in 1937, and haunted by solitude and breast cancer, Storni sent her last poem, Voy a dormir ("I'm going to sleep") to La Nacion newspaper. The following day she committed suicide, by walking into the sea at the La Perla beach in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Related websites
Alfonsina at the Cervantes Virtual Library
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