Orfila Bardesio

Orfila Bardesio (born May 18, 1922 in Montevideo , † October 14, 2009 there ) was a Uruguayan poet.

Bardesio made his debut in 1939 with the volume of poetry Voi . This was followed by La muerte de la luna (1942) and Poema (1946), all of which were received positively by literary criticism. Jules Supervielle praised her as a great poet, and she was accepted into the literary circle of the Generación del 45 . In 1950 Bardesio married the poet and children's book author Julio Fernández . With him she moved to Treinta y Tres , where he taught Spanish and she taught literature.

For her Christian-Catholic trilogy Uno (published in 1955, 1959 and 1971) and also for her work Poema , she received four times the price of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. After the death of her husband in 1974, she returned to Montevideo. Her main work El ciervo radiante was published there in 1984 . For this, as for Poema , it received an award from the Intendencia Municipal of Montevideo . In 1989 she published the literary-religious essay La luz del ojo en el follaje . Her last volume of poetry, La canción de la tierra , appeared a few months after her death. Many of her texts have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Indice , La Nación , Alfar and Marcha .

Works

Voy , 1939
La muerte de la luna , 1942
Poema , 1946
Uno / Libro 1º , 1955
Uno / Libro 2 ° , 1959
Canción , 1970
Uno / Libro 3º , 1971
Juego , 1972
La flor del llanto , 1973
El ciervo radiante , 1984
La luz del ojo en el follaje , essay, 1989
Antología poética , 1994
La canción de la tierra , 2009

literature

Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 38

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personal data
SURNAME	Bardesio, Orfila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bardesio Vila, Orfila Celia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Uruguayan poet
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH	October 14, 2009
Place of death	Montevideo