User:Felipekondo/Irma Peirano

Irma Peirano (Chiavari, 7th of March, 1917 - Buenos Aires, 19th February, 1965) was a poet and an Argentine editor of Italian origin.

Biography
Peirano was born in 1917 in the locality of Chiavari, located in the Province of Genoa, Italy, daughter of Evaristo Juan Peirano and Sofía Corti. During her childhood she travelled with her family to Rosario, Argentina, and settled down in the Echesortu neighbourhood. In her youth she started to become interested in poetry and sent some of her work to the children's section of the Rosarian newspaper La Tribuna..

She published her first poetry collection in 1947, titled The body of singing (Cuerpo del canto, originally in Spanish). Four years later she published her second book, Love's dimension (Dimensión de amor, originally in Spanish).  Although both works were exalted by writers such as Luis Emilio Soto and José Portogalo, Peirano decided to link up professionally with the newspaper La Tribuna, becoming an editor. Since then she gave more importance to the literary rather than the journalistic work and moved to Buenos Aires in the beginning of the 1960s, city where she passed away February 19th, 1965, at forty seven years old, caused by a pancreatitis. The street Irma Peirano in Rosario was dedicated in her honor.

Notable works

 * The body of singing (Cuerpo del canto) (1947)
 * Love's dimension (Dimensión de amor) (1951)