ALFONSINA STORNI

The Storni family arrived at the province of San Juan in Argentina from Lugano, Switzerland, in 1880. In 1892, the 29 of May, were born in Sala Capriasca. Alfonsina, the third daughter of the Storni marriage. It took the name of the father, a melancholic and rare father. Later it would say to her friend Fermin Estrella Gutiérrez: “they called Alfonsina to me, that it means arranged to everything”. One graduated like teacher, she exerted in the city of Rosary and there published poems. She was transfered soon to Buenos Aires and she was educational in the Infantile Theater Lavardén, in the Normal School of Alive Languages and in 1917 teacher director of the boarding school of Marcos Paz. Alfonsina Storni began to frequent the literary circles and dictated conferences in Buenos Aires and Montevideo and obtained several literary prizes. That year, the 25 of October, victim of a terminal disease, decided to commit suicide in Mar de Plata. Unmarried mother, fact that was not acceptable at its time, was nevertheless the first woman recognized between the greater writers of that time. Its literary trajectory evolved from the Romanticism towards the vanguard and the symptomatic intimism of the crepuscular Modernism.