Tamara Kamenszain (9 February 1947 – 28 July 2021)[1] was an Argentine poet and essayist.
Biography
Kamenszain was born in Buenos Aires. She studied philosophy and worked in journalism from a very young age, editing the Culture sections of newspapers
La Opinión and
Clarín.
Her essays on Argentinian and Latin American poetry are the subject of study in universities in Argentina and abroad. Her books of poetry have been totally or partially translated into several languages.[3][4][5][6] Along with
Arturo Carrera and
Néstor Perlongher, she belonged to the 1970s generation of poets known as Neo-Baroque.[7]
First Essay Prize. Government of the City of Buenos Aires, awarded to the published production of the three-year period 1993-1996 for La edad de la poesía.[15]