María Negroni

María Negroni (born 1951 Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian poet, essayist, novelist and translator.

She graduated from Columbia University, with a PhD in Latin American Literature. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.^[1][2] She was a visiting professor at New York University, in 2008.^[3]

Awards

• International Prize for Essay Writing from Siglo XXI
• 2002 PEN Award for best book of poetry in translation, for Islandia
• 2000-2001 Octavio Paz Fellowship for Poetry
• 1997 Argentine National Book Award, for El viaje de la noche
• 1994 Guggenheim Fellowships

Works

• De tanto desolar Libros de Tierra Firme, 1985
• La jaula bajo el trapo, (1991); Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1999, ISBN 978-956-260-151-1
• El viaje de la noche Lumen, 1994, ISBN 978-84-264-2781-6
  • Night Journey, Translator Anne Twitty, Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-691-09098-6
• Diario Extranjero Pequena Venecia, 2000, ISBN 978-980-6315-79-2
• La ineptitud Alción Editora, 2002
• Islandia (1994)
  • Islandia: a poem, Translator Anne Twitty, Station Hill / Barrytown, Ltd., 2001, ISBN 978-1-886449-15-2

Essays

• Ciudad gótica Bajo la Luna Nueva, 1994, ISBN 978-987-99302-8-1; Bajo la Luna, 2007, ISBN 978-987-9108-35-2
• El testigo lúcido: la obra de sombra de Alejandra Pizarnik, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2003, ISBN 978-950-845-138-5
• Museo negro, Grupo Editorial Norma, 1999, ISBN 978-987-9334-11-9
• Galería fantástica, Siglo XXI, 2009, ISBN 978-607-03-0077-6

Novels

• El sueño de Ursula Seix Barral, 1998, ISBN 978-950-731-195-6
• La anunciación Emecé Editores / Seix Barral, 2007, ISBN 978-950-731-541-1

References

1. http://pages.slc.edu/~spanish/faculty.html#negroni
2. http://pages.slc.edu/~mnegroni/
3. http://cwspanish.as.nyu.edu/object/cws.marianegroni-en

External links

• "Maria Negroni", Sarah Lawrence magazine, Sophia Kelley, Fall 2009