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Alfonsina Storni

Alfonsina Storni (May 29 1892 October 25 1938) was one of the most important Ibero-American poets of the postmodernism movement.

Life

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.

In 1907, she joined a traveling theatre company which took her around the country. With them she performed in Henrik Ibsen's Spectres, Benito Perez Galdos's La loca de la casa, ...

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