Dora Isella Russell
Dora Isella Russell (May 15, 1925 – November 8, 1990) was an Argentine-born Uruguayan poet and journalist. Her works include: Sonetos (1943), El canto irremediable (1946), Oleaje (1949), El otro olvido (1952), Antología poética (1952), Del alba al mediodía (1954), Los barcos de la noche (1954), Tiempo y memoria (1964), El tiempo del regreso (1967), Los sonetos de Simbad (1970), Poemas hispanoamericanos (1977), and Memorial para Don Bruno Mauricio de Zabala (1977).[1]
Biography
[edit]Dora Isella Russell was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 15, 1925. Her family moved to Montevideo, Uruguay in 1933, where she grew up. She received her education at Escuela y Liceo Elbio Fernández and then continued her studies in literature.[2]
Russell taught as an associate professor. She was associated with the Nacional de Investigaciones y Archivos Literarios (National Institute for Literary Research and Archives). She was a disciple and secretary of the Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou.[3]
Her activity as a journalist was carried out with articles published in the Uruguayan newspaper El Día and in intellectual magazines in the United States, Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Egypt.[4] She was also the director of the Sunday Supplement of El Día and served as director of Museo Zorrilla.[2]
Awards and honours
[edit]For her career as a poet, she received recognition by the government of Lebanon and the National Order of Merit of Ecuador.[5]
Publications
[edit]- Sonetos (1943)
- El canto irremediable (1946)
- Oleaje (1949)
- El otro olvido (1952)
- Antología poética (1952)
- Del alba al mediodía (1954)
- Los barcos de la noche (1954)
- Tiempo y memoria (1964)
- El tiempo del regreso (1967)
- Los sonetos de Simbad (1970)
- Poemas hispanoamericanos (1977)
- Memorial para Don Bruno Mauricio de Zabala (1977)
- Los sonetos de Carass Court (1983)
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Asociación General de Autores del Uruguay (2000). Catálogo Biográfico de Autores Uruguayos. Uruguay: AGADU. p. 273. (in Spanish)
- ^ a b Elbio, El (19 September 2014). "Ex Alumnos de Honor o Destacados - El Elbio". www.elbiofernandez.edu.uy (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Juana de Ibarbourou por Dora Isella Russell Prologo de "Antología" Colección de Clásicos uruguayos V. 123 año 1967". espaciolatino.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ Uruguayos contemporáneos: noticias biográficas. T4. Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo. 1965. p. 56-57. (in Spanish)
- ^ "Russell, Dora Isella". www.scriptorium.una.ac.cr (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
Bibliography
[edit]- Pickenhayn, Jorge Oscar. La obra poética de Dora Isella Russell. Montevideo : Barreiro y Ramos, 1994. p. 60. (in Spanish)
