Luisa Futoransky

Luisa Futoransky (born in 1939) is an Argentine writer, scholar, and journalist living in France. She worked in the National Library under Jorge Luis Borges before leaving Argentina in 1971 to participate in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is the author of some fifteen books of poetry, four novels, and two nonfiction books. In the 1970s, she lived in Rome, Israel, Tokyo, and Beijing, before settling in Paris in 1981, where she has lived ever since. Futoransky was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and, in 1991, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.