Marina Arrate Palma ( Osorno, February 14, 1957) is a

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and clinic

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. She studied psychology at the

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and a master at the University of Concepción. She started publishing in 1985 in LAR publications before going back to

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where she founded the publishing house Libros de la Elipse. She has also been a teacher and a professor in several centres such as the Metropolitan University of Technology or the Gender and Culture Centre in Latin America (CEGECAL) within the University of Chile.

Works

* ''Este Lujo de Ser'', 1986, Editorial LAR, Concepción. * ''Máscara Negra'', 1990, Editorial LAR, Concepción. * ''Tatuaje'', 1992, Editorial LAR, Concepción. * ''Compilación de su Obra Publicada'', 1996, Editorial Tierra Firme, Buenos Aires, Argentina. * ''Uranio'', 1999
Editorial LOM
Santiago. * ''Trapecio'', 2002
Editorial LOM
Santiago. * ''El Libro del Componedor'', 2008, Sello Editorial Libros de la Elipse, Santiago. * ''Satén'', 2009
Editorial Pen Press
New York. * ''Carta a Don Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga'', Memoria Poética. Reescrituras de la Araucana, 2010

Prizes

* Premio Municipal de Poesía de Santiago 2003 for ''Trapecio''.

External links

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Poemas de Marina Arrate
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