María Negroni was born in Argentina in 1951. Her poems, essays, and translations have been widely published in literary magazines in both Latin America and Spain. She received a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry in 1994 and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1998. She received a National Book Award for her collection of poems, El viaje de la noche, and another for her collection of essays, Ciudad Gótica.
Her book Islandia received the PEN Award for best book of poetry in translation (2002). She directs with Jorge Monteleone Abyssinia: A Review on Poetry and Poetics, published by University of Buenos Aires Press. She presently teaches Latin American Poetry at Sarah Lawrence.
Books by Maria Negroni
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