Ana Becciu

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Ana Maria Becciú is an Argentine poet, editor and translator. She was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, and studied at the Universidad Católica Argentina. In the mid-1970s, she worked with the writers Eduardo Galeano and Augusto Roa Bastos. Moving to Europe in 1976, she continued her studies at Universidad Central de Barcelona and at the Sorbonne. She worked for many years as a translator with the United Nations.

Becciu is also a major literary translator and editor. She supervised the publication of the complete poems of Jorge Manrique, and she was also editor of the complete works of Alejandra Pizarnik, published in three volumes. Her translations include authors such as Djuna Barnes, Pascal Quignard, Antonin Artaud and Allen Ginsberg. She has won several prizes, among them the Angel Crespo Prize for her translation of Patrizia Runfola.^[1][2][3]