Olga Orozco


Olga Orozco was an Argentine poet. She was a recipient of the FIL Award.

Biography

She was born in Toay, La Pampa, to Carmelo Gugliotta, a Sicilian from Capo d'Orlando, and an Argentinean mother, Cecilia Orozco. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was 16 years old and she moved to Buenos Aires with her parents, where she studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, and later initiated her career as a writer. She started to work for a newspaper company. There she would take up varies names and publish works with different pseudonym.
Orozco directed some literary publications using some pseudonymous names while she worked as a journalist. She was a member of so-called «Tercera Vanguardia» generation, which had a strong surrealist tendency. No other information was provided about the group other than the fact that it functioned like a political party. Her poetic works were influenced by Rimbaud, Nerval, Baudelaire, Miłosz and Rilke. Due to her background in literature she was well respected and taken serious. Her works have been translated into various languages.
Olga Orozco died in Buenos Aires from a heart attack at the age of 79.

Prizes

On March 17, 2020, Google celebrated her 100th birthday with a Google Doodle.

Main works

Engravings Torn from Insomnia, trans Mary Crow, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2002. Finalist for a PEN USA Translation Award. Published with a Lannan grant.