Josefina Ludmer

{{short description|Argentinean writer (1939-2016)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|05|03}}

| birth_place = San Francisco (Córdoba)

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|12|10|1939|05|03}}

| death_place = Buenos Aires

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| nationality = Argentinian

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| occupation = professor, essayist, writer, and literary critic

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| known_for = Books: El género gauchesco. Un tratado sobre la patria (1988), translated as The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland (2002); and El cuerpo del delito. Un manual (1999), translated as The Corpus Delicti: A Manual of Argentine Fictions (2004)

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| parents = Beile Nemirovsky
Natalio Ludmer

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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984; Konex Platinum Prize (Linguistic Theory and Literature), 2016; Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires, 2010.

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| alma_mater = University of Rosario

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| discipline = Literary critic

| sub_discipline = Latin American literature

| workplaces = Yale University, University of Buenos Aires

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Josefina Ludmer (San Francisco, Córdoba – May 3, 1939; Buenos Aires, December 10, 2016) was an Argentinian professor, essayist, writer, and literary critic.{{Cite web|title=Ludmer y el legado de su imaginación crítica|url=https://www.clarin.com/ideas/ludmer-legado-imaginacion-critica_0_B19qg41Bl.html|last=Clarín.com|website=www.clarin.com|language=es|access-date=May 10, 2020}}

She was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires (1984–1991){{Cite web|title=Josefina Ludmer {{!}} Fundación Konex|url=http://www.fundacionkonex.org/|last=Factory|first=Troop Software|website=www.fundacionkonex.org|language=es|access-date=May 10, 2020}} and later at Yale University (1988–2005), specializing in Latin American literature.{{Cite web|title=Josefina Ludmer {{!}} Faculty of Arts and Sciences|url=https://fas.yale.edu/book/faculty-retirement-tributes-2005/josefina-ludmer|website=fas.yale.edu|access-date=May 10, 2020}}