Marosa di Giorgio (1932-2004) was born in Salto, Uruguay. The child of first and second generation Italian immigrants, di Giorgio grew up on a small farm on the city’s outskirts. As a child she developed a passion for theatre and poetry. She was an actress with a professional theatre company during the 1950’s and 60’s as well as briefly a journalist but later worked in the Civil Registry Office in Salto. In 1978 she moved to Montevideo. In 1953 her first book of poems appeared followed regularly by many others. From 1971 onwards her poetic work has been gathered into one continuously-expanding, thematically-interrelated book Los papeles salvajes.- some 650 pages in its 2008 edition. Marosa di Giorgio is also the author of five volumes of short stories. Through the 1980’s and 90’s she received a range of major awards and presented her poetry at Festivals and Universities in Latin America, Spain and the United States
