What is Elvira Orphée?
[[File:Elviraorphee.jpg|thumb|Elvira Orphée, 1981]] '''Elvira Amanda Orphée''' (29 May 1922<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eternacadencia.com.ar/blog/contenidos-originales/entrevistas/item/el-universo-orphee.html|title=El universo Orpheé|website=eternacadencia.com.ar}}</ref> – 26 April 2018) was an [[Argentina|Argentine]] writer.<ref name=latin>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyzGBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT1269|title=Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia|pages=1269–76|last=André|first=María Claudia|author2=Bueno, Eva Paulino|year=2014|isbn=978-1317726340}}</ref> She was born in [[San Miguel de Tucumán]]. Orphée has published short stories and articles in various publications such as ''El Tiempo'', ''[[Revista de Occidente]]'', ''Asomante'', ''Cuadernos'', ''Razon'' and ''Zona Franca e Imagen''.<ref name=contemporary>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuroZrFra1kC&pg=PA141|title=Contemporary Argentinean Women Writers: A Critical Anthology|page=141|last=Fares|first=Gustavo C.|author2=Hermann, Eliana Cazaubon|year=1998|isbn=0813015537}}</ref> She was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in Creative Arts in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/11009-elvira-orphee |title=Elvira Orphée|publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402101619/http://www.gf.org/fellows/11009-elvira-orphee|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> Orphée died on 26 April 2018 in [[Buenos Aires]] at the age of 95.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/768861/actualidad/a-96-anos-murio-escritora-elvira-orphee.html|title=A los 95 años murió la escritora Elvira Orphée|first=La|last=Gaceta|website=www.lagaceta.com.ar}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Orphee, Elvira}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Argentine writers]]