She was born in
Paraná, in the province of
Entre Ríos,
Argentina, but as a girl she lived in
Buenos Aires. On 10 August 1949, when she was eight years old, her mother, Leopoldina Lichtschein, also a writer and poet, died in a train accident. This tragic episode marked Bird's life, but also signaled her destiny as a writer. At the age of thirteen she won a poetry contest. At the age of sixteen, she had already published her first short story, and the following year she began to publish, in a professional way, poems and texts in important magazines, both for Argentina and the world. Apart from producing texts aimed at children and young people, she worked as the director of the magazine
Vosotras, which she transformed into a well-known magazine for womanly publications. Bird was awarded several international prizes, such as the Santa Clara de Asís and the Premio Mundial Consagración de la Literatura. ==See also==