Gloria Alcorta Mansilla

Gloria Alcorta (30 September 1915 – 25 February 2012) was an Argentine writer, poet and sculptor.

Early life and art career Alcorta was the daughter of Rodolfo Alcorta, painter and Argentinean diplomat to France, daughter of writer Eduarda Mansilla. As a child, she was a voracious reader and showed great passion for sculpture, as well as an aptitude for music and painting. In addition to poetry and short stories, she also wrote the 1954 play Le seigneur de Saint Gor, which would premiere at the Théâtre des Arts. and would write film criticism throughout her career. Alcorta attended a private screening of the now-lost 1936 Benjamin Fondane film Tararira. In the 60s, she would go to the Cannes Film Festival to report on Argentinian films showing there. Publications