Anahí Lazzaroni

Anahí Mónica Lazzaroni (La Plata, August 30, 1957 – Ushuaia, March 27, 2019) was an Argentine poet.

Personal life
Anahí Lazzaroni was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires Provice, Argentina in 1957. In 1966, she and her family moved to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, where she lived and worked all her life. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a lawyer. Her sister, Alicia Lazzaroni, is a writer and journalist who is also involved in Ushuaian cultural art, having written a play based on historical letters from the Ushuaia Prison.

Lazzaroni had achondroplasia, and in the last twenty years of her life suffered from chronic bone pain. Her struggles with illness later in life meant that she did not travel much, but Lazzaroni was strongly connected to the Argentine artistic community, particularly in Ushuaia, and was close to people like poets Carlos Juárez Aldazábal and Florencia Lobo, and the poet Francisco Squeo Acuña, to whom she dedicated her poem Diciembre 1990.

Lazzaroni died on March 27, 2019.

Career
When she was 19 years old, Lazzaroni took part in a workshop with Ana Emilia Lahitte on Contemporary Argentine Poetry, and has said that this experience connected her with Argentine poetry, with one of her favorite poets being Alejandra Pizarnik.

Lazzaroni began publishing her poetry when she was 20, starting with Viernes de acrílico (1977). From 1986 to 1994 she co-founded and directed the magazine "Aldea," which published on a variety of topics related to the history of Tierra del Fuego and Ushuaia, including literary topics and anthropology, sociology, and geography. Her poems are considered to be among the work of artists in the Patagonia Argentina region.

Throughout her career, Lazzaroni collaborated with newspapers and publications all over Argentina, internationally, and online. Her poems have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, English, French, Korean and Catalan.

Lazzaroni was inspired by Japanese poetry, especially haikus, as well as Fuegian philosophy. In her poetry, she wrote about her neighborhood in Ushuaia, social issues, Ushuaian history, the natural world, and her experience with pain.

Anahí Lazzaroni Popular Library
This library was named after Lazzaroni after her passing. It is located in the Bahía Golondrina ("Monte Galliner") neighborhood of Ushuaia, Argentina. The Anahí Lazzaroni Popular Library ("Biblioteca Popular Anahí Lazzaroni" in Spanish) is run by the Ushuaia anda Leyendo Civil Association. Its mission is to support education and culture within its community by taking inspiration from Lazzaroni's work and legacy.

Poetry

 * Viernes de acrílico (1977)
 * Liberen a la libélula (1980)
 * En esta ciudad se escribirá una novela (texto experimental en prosa) (Aldea Magazine Editions, 1988)
 * Dibujos (Aldea Magazine, 1988)
 * El poema se va sin saludarnos (Ediciones Último Reino, 1994)
 * Bonus Track (Ediciones Último Reino, 1994; Último Reino, 1999),
 * A la luz del desierto (Y acechar el haiku) (Ediciones Último Reino, 2004),
 * El viento sopla (El Suri Perfiado, 2011)
 * Alguien lo dijo (El Suri Perfiado, 2017).

Anthologies

 * Antología del empedrado, 1996.
 * Poesía Argentina año 2000, selection and prologue by Marcela Croce, 1999.
 * Cantando en la casa del viento – Poets of Tierra del Fuego, selection and prologue by Niní Bernardello, 2010.
 * Antología Federal de poesía – Patagonia Region, 2015.
 * La frontera móvil. Antología de poesía contemporánea de la Patagonia Argentina, selection and prologue by Concha García and epilogue by Luciana Mellado, Edciones Carena, Madrid, Spain.
 * Poesía de la Patagonia Fueguina – Una aproximación de la obra de Anahí Lazzaroni, by María Emilia Graf, Spanish Academic Publishing House, Madrid, 2014

Magazines

 * Aldea - co-founded and directed the magazine from 1986 to 1994