Pelegrina Pastorino

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Pelegrina Pastorino (* 1902 in Genoa , Italy ; † 1988 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was an Argentine journalist and an active supporter of the women's movement since the interwar period .

Pastorino was born in Palazzo Pastorino and spent her childhood there. Despite the economic boom Italy was given by King Victor Emmanuel III. learned, there was another wave of emigration, which the Pastorino family joined. Pastorino completed her first school years in Buenos Aires, but was then sent by her family to visit relatives in Genoa to attend a high school .

Pastorino then attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and worked there a. a. with fashion design . After graduating, she was hired by Harrods as a mannequin . Through her family, she made the acquaintance of Aristotle Onassis during this time and was entrusted by his cigarette company Primeros for a national advertising campaign in South America.

When the writer Victoria Ocampo founded the literary magazine Sur in 1931 , she hired Mariá Rosa Oliver and Pastorino as an editor. The three women already knew each other through their membership of Grupo Florida . In addition to her purely editorial work, Pastorino began to write for the women's movement from this time on. In the editorial office of the magazine Sur , she also met the librarian Nicolas Barrios-Lynch (1910–1986) and married him in Cordoba .

During the Spanish Civil War , Pastorino supported the Republicans in her articles . Roger Caillois left France in 1939 and chose Buenos Aires for exile. When he opened his Institute français there, he was actively supported by Pastorino, who also founded the magazine Lettres françaises with him there . During the Second World War , Pastorino was a member of the Red Cross and UNESCO and helped refugees from Europe to find a new home in South America.

In 1988 Pelegrina Pastorino died in Buenos Aires, where she also found her final resting place.

Pastorino was the aunt of the actress Malvina Pastorino (1916–1994); other relatives in Argentina were the writers Adolfo Bioy Casares and Enrique Lynch Arribálzaga and in Italy the politician Luca Pastorino (* 1971) and the philologist Agostino Pastorino (1920–1984).

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SURNAME Pastorino, Pelegrina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 1988
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina