Английская Википедия:Elvira Orphée
Elvira Amanda Orphée (29 May 1922[1] in San Miguel de Tucumán – 26 April 2018)[2] was an Argentine writer.[3]
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
- 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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- Argentine women novelists
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- University of Paris alumni
- People from San Miguel de Tucumán
- Argentine expatriates in France
- Argentine people of Greek descent
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