Notes from Childhood

Norah Lange (1905 - 1972) was a key figure in the Argentine avant-garde of the early to mid-twentieth century. Beginning her career as a poet, her first major success came in 1937 with her memoir Notes from Childhood, followed by the companion memoir Before They Die, and the novels People in the Room and The Two Portraits. She contributed to the magazines Proa and Martín Fierro, and was a friend to figures such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Federico García Lorca. Charlotte Whittle has been instrumental in bringing Lange to audiences in English. With People in the Room she was longlisted for the American Literary Translators Association prize and shortlisted for both the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize. Her work on Notes on Childhood won a PEN translates award. She lives in New York.