Syria Poletti

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Syria Poletti (1968)

Syria Poletti (born February 10, 1917 in Pieve di Cadore , † April 11, 1991 in Buenos Aires ) was an Italian - Argentine writer and journalist . She wrote mainly children's and youth literature , but also novels and stories for adults. In her work she often dealt with the experience of Italian immigration to Argentina.

life and work

Poletti grew up with her maternal grandmother in Sacile, northern Italy , after her father emigrated to Argentina in 1923 or 1924 . While her mother and siblings followed their father after a while, Syria Poletti had to stay in Italy. Due to financial difficulties, she temporarily lived with wealthy relatives who prevented her from going to school and forced her to do housework. As she ran away repeatedly, she was placed in the Toso di Casier in Treviso , an orphanage run by nuns for impoverished and single girls. Here she attended school and learned sewing and embroidery. She obtained a diploma as a kindergarten teacher at the Istituto Ferrante Aporti in Sacile.

After the death of her grandmother, Poletti decided in 1937 to also emigrate to Argentina. Due to a sudden onset of scoliosis , she was initially refused a visa; in the following year you will be able to cross and enter the country. She met her family again in Gualeguay . For a living, Poletti taught Italian in Rosario while studying at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Cordoba . After graduating, she moved to Buenos Aires in the late 1940s , where she worked as a newspaper and radio journalist and published her first short stories in newspapers and magazines. She was bilingual editor at SIRA (Servicio Internacional de Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior) (1950–1955), editor-in-chief at RAE ( Radiodiffusione Argentina all'Estero ) (1955–1965) and from 1960 onwards she signed for numerous educational programs at LRA (Radio Nacional) and LS1 (Radio Municipal) responsible. For her services to conveying Italian culture, she was awarded the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by Italy in 1974 (order class: knights).

Poletti wrote short stories and two novels for adults on the one hand, and stories and books for children and young people on the other. In her works she repeatedly dealt with the experiences of Italian immigrants in Argentina, often portrayed from the perspective of children. Her works are often read as autobiographical testimony to their own experiences. With her story Rojo en la salina (1964) and her collection of short stories, Historias en rojo (1967), she is one of the very few Hispanic American authors who wrote crime stories in the middle of the 20th century . Gianna M. Martella sees the choice of a female protagonist who investigates on her own initiative, solves the case but refrains from handing the perpetrator over to justice, a first deviation from the classic schemes of Anglo-American detective history . The story is part of the development of the Hispanic American detective novel, in which criminals are not always punished and people who are popular are also subjected to injustices.

In 1953, Poletti won the Premio Kraft , a competition for children's literature, with two of her stories . In the following years her texts appeared in various anthologies. Her first novel, Gente conmigo , from 1962 won the Premio Internacional de Novela Editorial Losada and was made into a film by Jorge Darnell two years later. In it, Poletti describes the story of Nora, who immigrated to Buenos Aires from a small town in Friuli Italy and made her way there as a translator. Her second novel, Extraño oficio , was published in 1971 and was nominated for the Argentine National Prize for Literature. In this novel, too, Poletti processes autobiographical experiences, albeit in fragmented form with self-contained sections from different narrative perspectives. In 1984 she received the Premio Konex de Platino for her children's literary work .

Works

  • Gente conmigo . Losada, Buenos Aires 1961.
    • German immigrants . From d. Chip. trans. by Ana Maria Brock. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1968.
  • Extraño oficio . Losada, Buenos Aires 1971.
  • Historias en rojo . Cataluya, Buenos Aires 1973.
  • Line de fuego . Losada, Buenos Aires 1974.
  • El juguete misterioso . Sigmar, Buenos Aires 1977.
  • El misterio de las valijas verdes . Plus Ultra, Buenos Aires 1978.
  • Marionetas de aserrín . Buenos Aires: Crea. 1980.
  • Cupid de alas . Arte Gaglianone, Buenos Aires 1981.
  • El rey que prohibió los globos . Arte Gaglianone, Buenos Aires 1982.
  • La gente . Kapelusz, Buenos Aires 1984.
  • Alelí y el payaso Bum Bum . Arte Gaglianone, Buenos Aires 1985.
  • El monito Bam-Bin . El Ateneo, Buenos Aires 1985.
  • Taller de imaginería . Losada, Buenos Aires 1987.
  • 100 Cuentos de Syria Poletti para empty antes de dormir . Sigmar, Buenos Aires 1987.
  • Las hadas hacen dedo . Arte Gaglianone, Buenos Aires 1988.
  • ... y llegarán buenos aires . Vinciguerra, Buenos Aires 1989.
  • The terror de la selva . El Ateneo, Buenos Aires 1991.

literature

  • Walter Gardini: Syria Poletti. Mujer de dos Mundos . Asociación Dante Alighieri, Buenos Aires 1994.
  • Francesca Minonne: Performative Translations in Syria Poletti's Gente conmigo . In: California Italian Studies , 6 (2) (2016).
  • Silvana Serafin (Ed.): Ancora Syria Poletti. Friuli e Argentina due realtà a confronto . Bulzoni, Rome 2005.
  • Silvana Serafin (Ed.): Immigrazione friulana in Argentina. Syria Poletti racconta… Bulzoni, Rome 2004.
  • Silvana Serafin: Syria Poletti. la scrittura della marginalità . In: Oltreoceano 2 (2008), pp. 145-155. doi: 10.1400 / 116873
  • Janice Geasler Titiev: Structure as a Feminist Statement in the Fiction of Syria Poletti. In: Letras Femeninas 15, no. 1/2, (1989), pp. 48-58.
  • Emanuela Turchet: Historias en rojo di Syria Poletti. Compenetrazione di Mistero Umano e Letterario . In: Silvana Serafin (Ed.): Friuli versus Ispano-America . Mazzanti, Venedug 2006, pp. 67-90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the literature, the year 1921 or 1922 is sometimes mentioned as Poletti's year of birth. In addition, her immigration is dated by various authors to 1939, 1943, 1945 and 1946, respectively. Silvana Serafin (Ed.), Ancora Syria Poletti. Friuli e Argentina due realtà a confronto, a cura di Silvana Serafin . (= CNR, Studi di letteratura ispano-americana-Biblioteca della ricerca, 15). Bulzoni, Rome 2005, ISBN 8878700541 , p. 13. In older publications, Silvana Serafin indicated the year 1922 as the year of birth and 1946 as the year of immigration: Syria Poletti. Biografia di una passione . In: Rassegna Iberistica , 78 (2003), pp. 37-50, here pp. 38 f .; on the other hand, see her more recent essay Syria Poletti. La scrittura della marginalità . In: Oltreoceano 2 (2008), pp. 145–155, here p. 147 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Silvana Serafin: Poletti Syria (1917-1991). In: Dizinario Biografico Dei Friulani. 2016, accessed March 31, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Susane Hernández-Araico: Syria Poletti (B 1921.) . In: Diane E. Marting (Ed.): Spanish American Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Source Book . Greenwood, New York 1990, pp. 461-471, here p. 462.
  4. ^ Gianna M. Martella: Pioneers. Spanish American Women Writers of Detective Fiction . In: Letras Femeninas , Verano 2002, Vol. 28, No. 1, Número Especial Sobre la Novela Criminal Femenina (Verano 2002), pp. 31-44, here p. 32.
  5. ^ Gianna M. Martella: Pioneers. Spanish American Women Writers of Detective Fiction . In: Letras Femeninas , Verano 2002, Vol. 28, No. 1, Número Especial Sobre la Novela Criminal Femenina (Verano 2002), pp. 31-44, here p. 37.
personal data
SURNAME Poletti, Syria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Argentinian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieve di Cadore
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1991
PLACE OF DEATH Buenos Aires