Mirta Rosenberg

Mirta Rosenberg (October 7, 1951 – June 28, 2019) was an Argentine poet and translator.

Biography Rosenberg was born on October 7, 1951, in Rosario, Santa Fe. She studied Literature at the National University of Littoral and French at the Alliance Française school. Between 1973 and 1976, she studied Literature Translation and Scientific and Technical Translation in English at Instituto Superior Nacional del Profesorado de Rosario. She was a member of the board of directors of “Diario de Poesía” (Journal of Poetry). In 1990 she established the imprint “Bajo la Luna” (Under the Moon). In her literary work are found books like “Pasajes” (Excerpts), El arte de perder (The art of losing) and El paisaje interior (The inner landscape). In 2004 she won the Konex Award as a translator. Some of her poems have been included in several anthologies and translated into English, French, Portuguese, German and Dutch. She died on June 28, 2019, in Buenos Aires.

Professional activity

She had translated and published poems of Katherine Mansfield, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, James Laughlin, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, D. H. Lawrence, Louise Gluck, Anne Carson, Robert Hass, Anne Sexton, Joseph Brodsky, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Kay Ryan, Sappho (from English), among other authors. She was an adviser in the House of Poetry “Evaristo Carriego” of the Buenos Aires City Council, where she coordinated the series “Los Traidores”, a platform about poetry translation, between 2001 and 2004.

In cooperative work with Daniel Samoilovich she edited a weekly poetry page in the magazine of “La Nación” newspaper. In 2016 she established the literary magazine “Extra/1. Lecturas para poetas” (Extra/1. Reading for poets), which she is running at the moment. This publication collects texts about poetry, translations, and interviews.

From 2018 until the end of April 2019, she held the chair of the Poetry Workshop II, which she created, at the National University of the Arts (UNA in Spanish).