Gloria Alcorta (30 September 1915 – 25 February 2012) was an Argentine writer, poet and sculptor.

Gloria Alcorta
BornSeptember 30, 1915
Bayonne, France
DiedFebruary 25, 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentine
Occupation(s)Writer, poet, film critic, artist

Her first work was a books of poems in French titled La Prison de l'enfant, it was published in 1935 and it has a preface by Jorge Luis Borges. She lived in Paris[1] and wrote film criticism,[2][3] and went to the Cannes Film Festival to report on Argentinian films showing there.[4][5]

She was the daughter of Rodolfo Alcorta.

References

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  1. ^ Weiss, Jason (2014-01-02). The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris. Routledge. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-317-97144-3.
  2. ^ Fondane, Benjamin (2016-05-17). Existential Monday: Philosophical Essays. New York Review of Books. pp. xv. ISBN 978-1-59017-898-0.
  3. ^ Suisman, David; Strasser, Susan (2011-10-11). Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8122-0686-9.
  4. ^ Navitski, Rielle (2023-11-21). Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture Between Latin America and France, 1945–1965. Univ of California Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-520-39143-7.
  5. ^ Rocha, Carolina (2018-01-05). Argentine Cinema and National Identity (1966-1976). Liverpool University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-78694-826-7.