Silvina bullrich biography meaning

Silvina Bullrich (October 4, 1915 – July 2, 1990) was a best-selling Argentine novelist, as well as a translator, screenwriter, critic, and academic.

She was known in Argentina as la gran burguesa ("the great bourgeois lady").

Life and work

Silvina Bullrich was born to María Laura Meyrelles de Bullrich, of Portuguese descent and to Rafael Bullrich (1877–1944), a distinguished Argentine cardiologist and Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires.

The second of three sisters, she was raised in a privileged background; despite the conservative Dr. Bullrich's disapproval, her mother occupied her free time introducing her daughters to classic literature and, unhappily married, frequently traveled with them to Paris, where Silvina's paternal grandfather had been a diplomat.

She was unable to pursue a university diploma, but received a diploma in French language studies from the Buenos Aires Alliance Française.

She married Artur