Ivonne Bordelois

• Name — Ivonne Bordelois • Birth Name — Ivonne Aline Bordelois • Born — 5 November 1934 • Birthplace — Juan Bautista Alberdi (Buenos Aires), Argentina • Occupation — Poet, essayist, linguist • Awards — Konex Award (2004) • Education — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ivonne Bordelois graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires) at the University of Buenos Aires, later studying literature and linguistics at the Sorbonne. She worked at the magazine Sur and conducted interviews and publications with Alejandra Pizarnik for various national and international publications. In 1968 she received a scholarship from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and moved to Boston to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There she received her doctorate in linguistics in 1974, with Noam Chomsky as the director of her thesis. From 1975 to 1988 she held a chair of linguistics at the Ibero-American Institute of Utrecht University, obtained through international competition. In 1982 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2004 she received the Konex Award Merit Diploma in the Literary Essay category, and served on the award's jury in 2006, 2014, and 2016. In 2005 she was awarded the La Nación-Editorial Sudamericana prize for her essay El país que nos habla.

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