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Maria Elena Walsh

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Maria Elena Walsh is an Argentine musician and writer known for her songs and books for children.

Maria Elena Walsh was born to an English railway worker, of Irish descent, who played the piano and an Argentinian woman of Andalusian descent. As a child, she lived in a big house, where she greatly enjoyed reading and listening to music. In 1947, before graduating from art school, she published her first book, Otono Imperdonable, a selection of poems which obtained the recognition of the critics and important Latin American writers.

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