Wafi Salih (born 5 June 1965 in Trujillo) is a

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 ...

n-born writer of Lebanese descent. Writer of:

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, short stories,

essay An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...

s, dramaturgy and film scripts. She is recognized as “the master of short poetry in Venezuela” for her extensive exploration of

haiku is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or s ...

poetry, a literary genre of Japanese origin. Her books has been translated into English, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.

Biography

Magister in Latin American Literature, graduated from the “ Universidad de los Andes”. She has a doctoral project in History and twenty books published in several genres. She was founder of “ José Antonio Ramos Sucre” a literary workshop for seven consecutive years, which contributed to the training of Venezuelan artists and researchers. Her thesis about female gender, is an innovative proposal about

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

. A profuse reflection that opens a question about the modes of cultural production and its effects on the social being. This research was published in Monte Ávila Editores in 2007 under the name: “The images of the absent”.

Bibliography

Poetry

*'' Adagio (Adage) (1987) '' *'' Los cantos de la noche. (Songs of the night) (1990):'' *'' Las horas del aire (The hours of the air) (1991)'' *'' Pájaro de raíces (Bird of roots) (2002) Winner of the poetry contest “Every day a book”, 2004'' *'' El Dios de las dunas (The God of the Dunes) (2005) '' *'' Huésped del alba (Guest of dawn) (2006) '' *'' Jugando con la poesía (Playing with poetry) (2006) '' *'' Caligrafía del aire (Air Calligraphy) (2007) '' *'' Cielos descalzos (Barefoot Skies) (2009) '' *'' Vigilia de huesos (Vigil of bones) (2010) '' *'' Con el índice de una lágrima (the index finger of a tear )'' *'' Honor al fuego (Honor to the fire) (2018) '' *'' Consonantes de agua (Water Consonants) (2018) '' *'' Sojam (Sojam) (2018) '' *'' Cielo avaro (Greedy heaven) (2018) '' *'' Serena en la plenitud (Serene in the fullness) (2020) Anthology.''

Essays and Narrative

*''Las imágenes de la ausente''. (The images of the absent) (2012) Essay. *''Más allá de lo que somos''. (Beyond who we are) (2018) Essay. *''Hombre moreno viene en camino''. (Black man is on his way): Theatrical monologues. *''Discípula de Jung''. (Disciple of Jung) (2016): Story.

References

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