Hanni Ossott (14 February 1946 – 31 December 2002) was a poet, translator and critic from

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

. She was born in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

and she received her bachelor's degree in the

Universidad Central de Venezuela The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in L ...

, where she was also a professor. She was awarded the

José Antonio Ramos Sucre José Antonio Ramos Sucre ( Cumaná, 9 June 1890 – Geneva, 13 June 1930) was a Venezuelan poet, professor, diplomat and scholar. He was a member of the Sucre family of Venezuela and the great-great-nephew of Antonio José de Sucre. He was educa ...

Prize and the Lazo Martí Prize and she worked as a translator and a critic.

Main works

*Hasta que llegue el día y huyan las sombras (1983) *El reino donde la noche se abre (1986) *Plegarias y penumbras (1986) *Cielo, tu arco grande (1989) *Casa de agua y de sombras (1992) *El circo roto (1993).

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Hanni Ossott recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on 7 June 1990
Writers from Caracas Venezuelan women poets Venezuelan translators 1946 births 2002 deaths Central University of Venezuela alumni Academic staff of the Central University of Venezuela 20th-century Venezuelan poets 20th-century translators 20th-century Venezuelan women writers English–Spanish translators German–Spanish translators Venezuelan women educators Deaths in Venezuela Death in Caracas {{Venezuela-translator-stub