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Birth
Alfonsina Storni was born on May 29, 1892 in Switzerland. She was the third daughter of Alfonso Storni and Paulina Martignoni. At four he moved with her parents to Argentina.
The first place where she lived was the city of San Juan, later he lived in Santa Fe, Rosario, Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata. She was an Argentine poet and writer linked to modernism. -
Rosario Argentina
In 1901 the family moved to the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, for unknown reasons. They took some savings with which Paulina opened a small home school, and became the head of a large family, poor and with no one to handle it.
They installed the Swiss Coffee Warehouse but the project failed. Alfonsina stopped attending school and began to work washing and serving tables at the age of ten. -
Her first poem
With 12 years Alfonsina wrote her first poem, marked by the sadness of the life she sees around and centered on death. She left it under her mother's pillow for her to read, and the next morning, her mother, angry, explained her that life is sweet. -
her father died
When she was fourteen, her father died. He had been alcoholic. -
her first books
The first book was published in 1916, when she was poor, single mother, because she became pregnant when she was 20. Her next works, Sweet Damage (1918), Irremediably (1919), and Languidez (1920) express their frustrations with stereotypes Women's. -
achievements and awards
In 1920 Alfonsina Storni won the First Municipal Poetry Prize and the Second National Literature Prize for Languidez. In 1923 she became a Professor of Reading and Declaration at the Normal School of Living Languages. Then she obtained a chair at the National Music and Declamation. She fought for the vote to women and wrote articles and essays on women's rights. The newspaper La Nación de Buenos Aires published several articles from her. -
Death
In the summer of 1935 Alfonsina discovered that she had breast cancer. In 1938, she wrote the poem "Me voy a dormir" and sent it to the editorial office of La Nación. While the public was reading her poem, she committed suicide on La Perla beach in Mar del Plata at dawn on October 25, when she was 46 years old.
