Alfonsina Storni | Notable Biographies

(1892/05/29 - 1938/10/25)

Alfonsina Storni
Argentinean writer

He was born on May 29, 1892 in Sala Capriasca (Swiss Ticino canton).
At age four he moved with his parents to Argentina. The first place where he lived was the city of San Juan, then lived in Santa Fe, Rosario, Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata. When he was fourteen years old, his father died. He worked in a factory to help at home.
As a teenager joined a theatre company and toured several provinces acting in some works. On his return he resumed his studies. He worked as a school teacher and also taught drama. Shortly after the birth of his son Alexander, working on trade, until the National Council of education awarded him an appointment. Since then divided between education and Professor of Declamation at the Teatro Infantil Municipal Labardén and at the National Conservatory, where he served until his last days.
He was collaborator in "Caras Y Caretas" of Buenos Aires and was awarded one of his stories. He made any incursion in the theatre, but it is famous for his books of poems. He began his literary career in 1916 when editing the restlessness of the rose, which brings together a new romantic feelings. He published fresh damage (1918), irremediably (1919) and languor (1920). Travels through Europe in 1930 and 1934, which resulted in a change of poetic style, as it appears in his most successful books: world of seven wells (1934) and mask and trefoil (1938).
In 1935 was diagnosed with a tumor that was operated, but the cancer continued and went through depressive periods after the suicide of friends like Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones and Egle Quiroga. In October 1938, he traveled to Mar del Plata. He sent two letters to his son and a poem of farewell to the "La Nación" newspaper. He ended his life committing suicide in the Pearl Beach in the mar de Plata on October 25, 1938.