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Alicia Ghiragossian
Armenian-Argentine poet
Alicia Ghiragossian (13 July 1936 – 22 May 2014) was an Armenian-Argentine poet and translator. Born in Argentina as the daughter of Armenian parents, she began publishing poetry in the late 1960s before settling in Los Angeles in 1971. Writing in three languages (Spanish, English and Armenian) she was the author of more than 60 books, including (Being and Punctuation), which was illustrated by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Her work has been recognised with a nomination for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.