Clara at Dawn

Fany Eugenia Kalnitzky de Brener, who later adopted the pseudonym Eugenia Calny, was born in Argentina’s San Juan province. She had a dual career as a journalist and creative writer in Buenos Aires, and her literary output included plays, poetry, and fiction. Written from the viewpoint of a Jewish feminist, her stories for adults feature protagonists, as in Las mujeres virtuosas (1967), who are typically long-suffering women chafing at their oppression and whose restlessness foreshadows the coming movement for liberation. In El unicornio celeste y el caballito con alas (1984), she claimed to be turning away from the smaller world of adult literature toward the freer, unbounded world of children’s literature.