Marosa di Giorgio

Her work deals predominantly with the imaginary world of childhood and nature. In the past few years, Latin American critics such as Hugo Achugar, Luis Bravo, Leonardo Garet, Sylvia Guerra, María Alejandra Minelli, and María Rosa Olivera-Williams have explored Marosa Di Giorgio's writing. Uruguayan poet Roberto Echavarren published in 1991 "Transplatinos", which offers an excellent introduction to Di Giorgio's writing. In'Identity, Nation, Discourse: Latin American Women Writers and Artists, edited by Claire Taylor (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), Soledad Montañez opens up a new discussion of Di Giorgio's erotic writing. Montañez shows how "Di Giorgio's erotic prose illustrates the representation and performance of patriarchal hierarchy as a perverse comedy, creating a genre that constructs gender narratives in order to undermine the patriarchal system from within." Montañez also affirms that "The effect achieved in Marosa's radicalised narrative is ultimately a mocking performance, a burlesque discourse that reveals and denounces domination and power. Through a perverse representation, Marosa exposes the complicated matter of culturally constructed sexual norms and develops a writing that is at the same time disturbing and astonishing" (2009: 158). In 1982, she received the Fraternity Award for literature.

• Birth Name — María Rosa di Giorgio • Born — 1932 • Died — 2004 • Awards — Fraternity Award

• Poemas (1954) • Humo (1955) • Druida (1959) • Historial de las violetas (1965) • Magnolia (1968) • La guerra de los huertos (1971) • Está en llamas el jardín natal (1975) • Papeles Salvajes (recompilation) • Clavel y tenebrario (1979) • La liebre de marzo (1981) • Mesa de esmeralda (1985) • La falena (1989) • Membrillo de Lusana (1989) • Misales (1993) • Camino de las pedrerías (1997) • Reina Amelia (1999) • Diamelas a Clementina Médici (2000) • Rosa mística (2003)

• The History of Violets tr. Jeannine Marie Pitas. Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2010. (Historial de las violetas) • Diadem tr. Adam Giannelli. BOA editions, Rochester, 2012. ISBN 9781934414972 (Historial de las violetas, Magnolia, La guerra de los huertos, Está en llamas el jardín natal, Clavel y tenebrario, La liebre de marzo, Mesa de esmeralda, & La falena) • Jasmine for Clementina Medici tr. Peter Boyle. Vagabond Press, Sydney & Tokyo, 2017. (Diamelas a Clementina Médici) • I Remember Nightfall tr. Jeannine Marie Pitas. Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2017. (Historial de las violetas, Magnolia, La guerra de los huertos & Está en llamas el jardín natal)