Ana Becciu

Ana Becciu , actually Ana María Becciu , (born July 20, 1948 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine poet and translator.

Life

Becciu studied at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universitat Cathólica de Barcelona and was able to successfully complete this course with a doctorate and habilitation . In 1976 she left Argentina and lived in various European cities. After studying in London and Paris , she got a job at the United Nations in Geneva as a translator, and later moved to their office in Vienna . Ana Becciu also worked as a literary translator for the writers Djuna Barnes , Allen Ginsberg and Tennessee Williams .

Becciu later accepted a position at the Universitat Cathólica de Barcelona and teaches there as “Prof. for literature ”. Since the winter of 1976/77 she has lived alternately in Girona ( Catalonia ), Espolla , the Loiret department (France) and her hometown Buenos Aires. She is also a member of the international writers' association PEN and is committed to promoting the Galician language .

In 2003 she reluctantly accepted the editing of the diary entries of the poet Alejandra Pizarnik , who she still knew, who died of an overdose of barbiturates at a young age. Critics complained that Becciu, together with the Pizarniks' sister, had several passages deleted. "It seems strange that Pizarnik entrusted the then 24-year-old Becciu with such a task, she who otherwise only cultivated friendship with solid and experienced authors".

Works

as an author

• Como quien acecha . Editorial de la Flor, Buenos Aires 1973.
• Faubourg St. Denis . Barcelona 2006.
• Por ocuparse de ausencias . Último Reino, Buenos Aires 1982, ISBN 950-9418-02-1 (El sonido y la furia; 9).
• Ronda de noche . New edition Plaza & Janés, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-01-59031-0 (Colección Poesía; 29).
• La visita y otros libros . Buguera, Barcelona 2007, ISBN 978-84-02-04033-6 (collection of her poems).

as editor and editor

• Jorge Manrique : Poesías completas . Kapelusz, Buenos Aires 1974
• Julio Cortázar : Algunos pameos y otros prosemas . Plaza & Janés Editore, Barcelona 2000, ISBN 84-01-59014-0 .
• Alejandra Pizarnik : In the beginning, love was violence. Diaries ("Diarios"). Ammann, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-250-10484-1 .

as a translator

• Djuna Barnes , Allen Ginsberg , Mary McCarthy , Valerie Solanas , Tennessee Williams ,
• Nadia Fusini , Alberto Manguel , Pascal Quignard , Patricia Runfola , Nathalie Sarraute

literature

• Gwendolyn Díaz: Women and Power in Argentine Literature. Stories, Interviews and Critical Essays. University of Texas Press, Austin TX 2007, ISBN 978-0-292-71649-0 ( Texas Pan-American Literature in Translation Series ).
• Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez: Poetas transatlánticas: Hispanoamericanas en la España de hoy. Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana Becciu, Isel Rivero. In: Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana. 38, 2009, pp. 111-133 online (PDF file; 132 kB).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ana Becciu in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The author Jason Weiss thanked u. a. You also expressly for the help and suggestions with his book about Latin American women writers in Paris: Jason Weiss: The lights of home: a century of Latin American writers in Paris . Routledge 2003, p. 10.
2. ↑ Argentinian Literature Days Zofingen 2010
3. ↑ internationalpen.org.uk ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Wera Reusch: On the way to the abyss. In her diaries, the poet Alejandra Pizarnik revealed her vulnerability. Deutschlandfunk , May 3, 2007.
5. ↑ Review by Diana Garcia Simon ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.