María Elvira Piwonka Moreno (Santiago, 1913 - 2006) was a Chilean writer and poet.
Along with Homero Arce, Stella Corvalán, Mila Oyarzún, among others, María Elvira Piwonka Moreno is included in a group of writers close to the Generation of '38.
[2] Alongside María Monvel, Chela Reyes, Sylvia Moore, Gladys Thein, Mila Oyarzún and Irma Astorga, Piwonka is included within the so-called “new poetry” of Chile from the late 1950s.
In 1949, she received the Santiago Municipal Poetry Prize for her second publication: Llamarlo amor (Call it love).
[4] In 1985, the poem "La pequeña súplica" (The small plea) from the book Intima was set to music by the singer-songwriter Norman Ilic, and won the first prize in the program "Esquinazo" on TV Channel 13 in a contest called "musicalización de poemas" (musicalization of poems).