María Negroni

María Negroni (born 1951 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian poet, essayist, novelist and translator.

She graduated from Columbia University, with a PhD in Latin American Literature. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She was a visiting professor at New York University, in 2008.

Awards International Prize for Essay Writing from Siglo XXI 2002 PEN Award for best book of poetry in translation, for Islandia 2000-2001 Octavio Paz Fellowship for Poetry 1997 Argentine National Book Award, for El viaje de la noche 1994 Guggenheim Fellowships

Works De tanto desolar Libros de Tierra Firme, 1985 La jaula bajo el trapo, (1991); Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1999, El viaje de la noche Lumen, 1994, Night Journey, Translator Anne Twitty, Princeton University Press, 2002, Diario Extranjero Pequena Venecia, 2000, La ineptitud Alción Editora, 2002 Islandia (1994) Islandia: a poem, Translator Anne Twitty, Station Hill / Barrytown, Ltd., 2001,

Essays Ciudad gótica Bajo la Luna Nueva, 1994, ; Bajo la Luna, 2007, El testigo lúcido: la obra de sombra de Alejandra Pizarnik, Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2003, Museo negro, Grupo Editorial Norma, 1999, Galería fantástica, Siglo XXI, 2009,

Novels El sueño de Ursula Seix Barral, 1998, La anunciación Emecé Editores / Seix Barral, 2007,