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Olga Dalin
Olga Dalin was born in Barranco, Lima-Peru in 1946 as Olga Luzmila La Rosa
Ambrossiani . She did her studies of primary and secondary school at María Auxiliadora College in Barranc...view moreOlga Dalin was born in Barranco, Lima-Peru in 1946 as Olga Luzmila La Rosa
Ambrossiani . She did her studies of primary and secondary school at María Auxiliadora College in Barranco.
Graduated in 1973 as Teacher of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional
Federico Villarreal in Lima. Worked as a primary school teacher in Lima from 1972 to 1975 before
emigrating to Australia where she lives with her family.
Olga started wrting poetry at 14 or 15 years of age, having been her first inspirations the work of the poets José María Eguren, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Abraham Valdelomar and Jorge Manrique. Later on at university other poets would influence her: Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, Juan Gonzalo Rose, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo and Octavio Paz. In Australia she read Federico Gracía Lorca, Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernandez, WH Auden , Walt Whitman, Dorothy Porter and Dorothy Hewett .
At age 17 Olga got her first award with the essay Development of the Peoples of America.
In Australia has been awarded for her poetry several times. By the Spanish Cultural Society in Sydney in 1994 and 1995. By the Literary Contest, Ruben Dario Melbourne Prize in 1993 and 1995. By the Competition for Poetry and narrative organized by the Latin American Group in Queensland in 1995.
Her short story The Confidant was published in the book Transitions under the auspices of the Department of The Arts and the Arts Council of Fremantle in 1996.
Three of her poems were selected for the Bilingual Anthology of Spanish- American poets in Australia, Over The Horizon, edited by Silvia Cuevas, under the auspices of the Australia Council for The Arts, in 1998. Olga lives in Perth with her family.view less
Books by Olga Dalin
Las Salinas, Para Siempre Las Hadas No Existen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings