Aurora VenturiniAurora Venturini was born in 1921 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She worked as a psychologist and Rorschach test specialist at the Institute of the Child's Psychology and Re-education, where she befriended Eva Peron. In 1948, Jorge Luis Borgesawarded her the Premio Iniciacion for her book El Solitario. Persecuted for her political ideas, she had to go into exile in Paris, where she interacted with personalities of French existentialism and Violette Leduc in particular. She wrote more than thirty books. In 2007, she received the Pagina/12 New Novel Award for Cousins. She died in 2015, in Buenos Aires, at the age of ninety-four. Read More Read Less