Diana Bellessi (born 1946) is an Argentine
poet
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.
Life
Diana Bellessi was born in 1946, in
Zavalla, Santa Fe
Zavalla is a town (''comuna'') in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 4,659 inhabitants per the . It is located on National Route 33, immediately west of Pérez, 22 km south-west of the center of Rosario, and 187 km ...
, Argentina.
She studied philosophy at the
Universidad Nacional del Litoral
The National University of Litoral ( es, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, UNL) is a public university in Argentina. It is based in Santa Fe, Argentina, Santa Fe, the capital of Santa Fe Province. It has colleges and other academic facilities i ...
From 1969 to 1975, she walked the continent.
For two years, she coordinated writing workshops in prisons in
Buenos Aires
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. She embodied this experience in the book ''Contraband Paloma'' (Torres Aguero, Buenos Aires, 1988).
In March 2008, she participated in the Fourth International Festival of
Izmir, dedicated to Latin America, with
Sergio Badilla Castillo
Sergio Badilla Castillo (born November 30, 1947 in Valparaiso, Chile) is a Chilean poet and the founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry. He is considered the Latin American poet with the broadest Nordic influence, from the Finnish ...
,
María Baranda,
Rei Berroa
Rei Berroa (born in Gurabo, Dominican Republic, 1949) is a Dominican-American poet, university professor, literary and cultural critic, and translator living in the United States. He has published more than 25 books of poetry, anthologies, transl ...
,
Rafael Courtoisie,
Pablo Armando Fernández
Pablo Armando Fernández (2 March 1930 – 3 November 2021) was a Cuban poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. In 1996, he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and most important award of its type.
Born ...
, and
Margarita Laso.
She lives in Buenos Aires.
Awards
* 1993
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
in poetry
* 1996 Antorchas Foundation fellowship
* 2004 Premio Konex, Merit Award
* 2007 Fondo Nacional de las Artes, lifetime award in poetry
Works
* ''Destino y propagaciones'', Edit. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Núcleo del Guayas, 1972
* ''Crucero ecuatorial'', Ediciones Sirirí, 1980
* ''Tributo del mudo'', Ediciones Sirirí, 1982
* ''Danzante de doble máscara'', 1985
* ''Eroica'', Libros de Tierra Firme/Ediciones Ultimo Reino, 1988
* ''Buena travesía, buena ventura pequeña Uli'', 1991
* ''El Jardín'', Bajo la Luna Nueva, 1992,
* ''Crucero Ecuatorial / Tributo del Mudo'', 1994
''The Twins, the Dream''(with Ursula K. Le Guin), Arte Publico Press, 1996,
* ''Sur'', Libros de Tierra Firme, 1998
* ''Gemelas del sueño'' (con U.K. Le Guin), 1998
* ''Mate cocido'', Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 2002,
* ''La Edad Dorada'', Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2003,
* ''La rebelión del Instante'', Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2005,
* ''Variaciones de la luz'', Bajo la Luna, 2006,
* ''Tener lo que se tiene - Poesía reunida'', 2009
"Gender and Translation" ''Voice-overs: translation and Latin American literature'', Editors Daniel Balderston, Marcy E. Schwartz, SUNY Press, 2002,
''Las Malas lenguas: antología del cancionero tradicional picaresco'' Editors Diana Bellessi, Noemí Diez, Ediciones Del Sol, 1992,
''A palavra nômade: poesia argentina dos anos 70'' Editor
Santiago Kovadloff
Santiago Kovadloff (born December 14, 1942) is an Argentine essayist, poet, translator, anthologist of Portuguese literature and author of children's stories. He was born in Buenos Aires where he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Buenos ...
, Iluminuras Ltda, 1990,
References
Sources
"Un lugar celebratario para la escritura: Diana Bellessi" ''La doble voz'', Alicia Genovese, Editorial Biblos, 1998,
External links
''Pagina 12'', 23 March 2009
, ''Cyber Humanitatis N° 24'', Spring 2002, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile ISSN 0717-2869
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1946 births
Living people
Argentine poets
Argentine women poets