Delfina Muschietti
Argentine poet (born 1953)
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Delfina Muschietti (born 1953) is an Argentine poet, translator, and essayist. A 2002 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written several poetry volumes and edited a few books. She has also served as director of the University of Buenos Aires's Poetry and Translation program.
- Poet
- translator
- essayist
Delfina Muschietti | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) Villaguay, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina |
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| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2002) |
Biography
Muschietti was born in 1953 in Villaguay, Entre Ríos Province.[1]
Muschietti has published several poetry volumes, specifically Los pasos de Zoe (1993), El rojo Uccello (1996), Enero (1999), Olivos (2002), and Amnesia (2010).[1][2] Writing about El rojo Uccello, Anahí Diana Mallol said that "in Delfina Muschietti's writing, the voice itself is fractured, split, and dissolved".[3]
In 1996, Muschietti published a translated volume of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poetry, titled La mejor juventud.[1][2] She has also published translations of work by Attilio Bertolucci, Alda Merini, and Amelia Rosselli.[2] She served as editor for Editorial Losada's complete works volume of Alfonsina Storni.[2] She was the editor of Traducir poesía. Mapa rítmico, partitura y plataforma flotante (2014; lit. "Translating Poetry: The Task of Repeating in Another Language");[4] Clarín called it "one of the most important books on this subject written in recent years".[5]
Muschietti is also an essayist, with her work focusing on subjects such as Oliverio Girondo, Juan Laurentino Ortiz, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Storni.[1] In 2000, she won an Antorchas Foundation to work on Más de una lengua, an essay book centered on contemporary Argentine poetry.[1] She was also a contributor to the 2006 edited volume Literatura argentina. Siglo XX, Tomo II, Yrigoyen entre Borges y Arlt (1916–1930), where she provided a gender perspective on a 1921 El Hogar article José Gabriel wrote on one of Storni's books.[6]
Muschietti works as a professor at the University of Buenos Aires.[2] In 2001, she became director of UBA's Poetry and Translation program.[2]
In 2002, Muschietti was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.[7] She also won a 2004 European Union Alßan Programme.[2]