Lourdes Vázquez (born 1949) is a Puerto Rican poet, fiction and essayist writer and a resident of the
United States
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[ Her poetry, short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her many collections, which have been translated into English and Italian by writers such as Bethany Korps-Edwards, Rosa Alcalá, Enriqueta Carrington and Brigidina Gentile have received excellent reviews. She is Librarian Emeritus of Rutgers University.
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Collaborations
Vázquez has collaborated with a group of artists. Some of these collaborations include the artist's book, ''Salmos del cuerpo ardiente'' by Consuelo Gotay (2007) and the videos ''Meche en doble luna llena'' (2006) by Adál Maldonado and ''Cat = Cat'' (2006) by Andrea Hasselager. She has also collaborated twice with Yarisa Colón Torres: ''Cibeles que sueña=Cybele, As She Dreams'' (35 copies, measuring 10" length x 6" width, translated by Enriqueta Carrington) and ''The Tango Files'' (35 copies, January 6, 2014, front cover by Yarisa Colón).
Awards
In 1988 Vázquez's book ''Las Hembras'' (1987) was selected by ''El Nuevo Día
''El Nuevo Día'' (English: ''The New Day'') is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Puerto Rico. It was founded in 1909 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and today it is a subsidiary of GFR Media. Its headquarters are in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
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'' newspaper as one of the Puerto Rican ten best books of the year, and ''Aterrada de cuernos y cuervos'', a biography of the poet Marina Arzola, received the same distinction in 1990. In 2001, Vázquez was awarded the "50 Most Distinguished Latinas in the Tri-State Area Award" by ''El Diario-La Prensa
''El Diario Nueva York'' is the largest and the oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the United States. Published by ImpreMedia, the paper covers local, national and international news with an emphasis on Latin America, as well as human- ...
'' newspaper (NY). She was the winner of the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award (France) in 2002.: category Literate World. In 2004, her ''Bestiary: Selected Poems 1986-1997'' received an Honorable Mention in the ''Foreword Reviews'' Book of the Year Awards. ''Bestiary'' was selected also as one of the "May–June 2004 Picks" by the ''Small Press Review.'' Her novel ''Sin ti no soy yo'' is part of ''The New Essential Guide to Spanish Reading'' (2012), compiled by the organization, America Reads Spanish and its English translation ''Not Myself Without You'' was selected as part of LatinoStories.com's "2013 Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch". Vázquez was awarded the Honorable Mention for the National Poetry Series 2014 Paz Prize
Archives
In 2008 the Library and Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies / CUNY invited her to donate her documents.
See: Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Library and Archives, Collection Descriptions. (https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/collections/collection-descriptions-t-z )
Publications
* ''La rosa mecánica.'' Rio Piedras, P.R.: Ediciones Huracán, 1991.
* ''Historias de Pulgarcito.'' Río Piedras, P.R.: Editorial Cultural, 1999.
* ''Hablar sobre Julia: Julia de Burgos: bibliografía 1934- 2002.'' Austin, TX: SALALM Secretariat, 2002.
* ''Desnudo con Huesos=Nude with Bones.'' La Candelaria, 2003.
* ''Park Slope.'' Duration Press 2003.
* ''May the transvestites of my island...'' Translation by Rosa Alcalá. New York: Belladona Press, 2004.
* ''Obituario.'' Babab, 2004.
* ''Bestiary: Selected Poems 1986-1997''. Translation by Rosa Alcalá. Tempe: Bilingual Review Press, 2004.
* ''La estatuilla.'' San Juan, PR: Cultural, 2004.
* ''Salmos del cuerpo ardiente.'' Chihuahua Arde, 2004.
* ''Salmos del cuerpo ardiente: An Artist Book by Consuelo Gotay.'' 2007.
* ''Samandar: libro de viajes=Book of Travel''. Translation by Enriqueta Carrington. Buenos Aires: Tsé Tsé, 2007.
* ''Tres cuentos y un infortunio.'' Argentina: Fundación A. Ross, 2009.
* ''Compiladora antología: Narradoras latinoamericanas en Estados Unidos.'' Argentina: Fundación A. Ross, 2009. vol. I ; Vol II
''Una muñeca de cerámica…=A porcelain doll...''
Wheelhouse Press, 2009.
* ''La mujer, el pan y el pordiosero.'' México: Eón, 2010.
* ''Sin ti no soy yo.'' (Second Revised Edition.) El Gallo Rojo, 2012.
* ''Not Myself Without You''. Translation by Bethany Korps-Edwards. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2012.
* ''Appunti dalla Terra Frammentata = Registros del Broken-Up Land.'' Translation by Manuela Derosas. Italy: EDIBOM Edizione Letterarie, Serie Collana Isla, 2012.
* ''Le Extrait I''. Ca: El Gallo Rojo, 2014. Translation by Philippe Burgos.
* ''Adagio con fugas y ciertos afectos: mis mejores cuentos.'' Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2013.
* ''Un enigma esas muñecas''. Madrid: Torremozas, 2015.
* ''The Tango Files''. Italia: Edizione Arcoiris, 2016.
*''El atardecer de los planetas azules''. San Juan: Los libros de la Iguana, 2018. ISBN 978-1-7325539-003
*''Orígenes de los eterno y así las cosas.'' Madrid: Verbum, 2020. ISBN 978-84--1337-356-0
See also
* List of Puerto Ricans
*List of Puerto Rican women writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Puerto Rico or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
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* Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (born 1940), historian, non-fiction writer
* Isabel Andreu de Aguilar (1887–1948), suffragist ...
*List of Puerto Rican writers
This is a list of Puerto Rican literary figures, including poets, novelists, short story authors, and playwrights. It includes people who were born in Puerto Rico, people who are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and long-term residents or immigrants ...
*Puerto Rican literature
Puerto Rican literature is the body of literature produced by writers of Puerto Rican descent. It evolved from the art of oral storytelling. Written works by the indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico were originally prohibited and repressed by th ...
*Puerto Ricans in the United States
Stateside Puerto Ricans ( es, link=no, Puertorriqueños de Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans ( es, link=no, puertorriqueño-americanos,), or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the U ...
References
External links
* Ni Bárbaras ni malinches: antología de narradoras en Estados Unidos. Fernando Olszanki, ed. USA: Ars Communis, 2017.
*Miscelánea: antología poetíca. Andrés Torres Guerrero, ed. Bogotá: Colombia 2020.
*Vera Alvarez, Germán y Pedro Medina León, eds. ''Miami (Un)plugged.'' Miami: Sed Ediciones, 2016.
* Rodríguez, Ileana y Mónica Szurmuk, eds. ''The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Writer''s. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
* Torres Rodríguez, Daniel. ''La isla del (Des)encanto: apuntes sobre una nueva literatura boricua.'' Puerto Rico/Santo Domingo: Isla Negra, 2015.
* Martín Sevillano, Ana Belén. ''Puerto Rico indócil: Antología de cuentos portorriqueños del siglo XXI'' . España: Algaida, 2015.
* ''Cuentos puertorriqueños en el nuevo Milenio.'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Los Libros de la Iguana, 2013.
* Medina Pedro, ed. ''Suburbano 2:'' ntología de cuentos Miami: Suburbano, 2013.
* Spahr, Juliana and Stephanie Young, eds. ''A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays About the Continued....''Philadelphia: Chain Links, 2011.
* Hidalgo de Jesús, Amarilys, ed., "La escritura de mujeres en Puerto Rico a finales del Siglo XX y principios del Siglo XXI." ''Essays on Contemporary Puerto Rican Writers.'' NY: Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen Press or Mellen Press is an international independent company and academic publishing house with editorial offices in Lewiston, New York, and Lampeter, Wales. It was founded, in 1972, by the religious studies scholar Profess ...
, 2012.
* Nieves, Myrna, ed. ''Breaking Ground: Anthology of Puerto Rican Women Writers in New York 1980-2012/Abriendo Caminos: antología de escritoras puertorriqueñas en Nueva York 1980-2012''. NY: Campana, 2012.
* Varderi, Alejandro ed. ''Los vaivenes del lenguaje: literatura en movimiento''. Madrid: Ediciones Libertarias, 2011.
* Gentile, Brigidina, ed. ''La otra Penélope''. Spain: ArCibel, 2010.
* Valero, Silvia. "Entre las ruinas y la descolonización: reflexiones desde la literatura del Gran Caribe." ''Revista Tinkuy: Boletín de investigación y debate''. 13: Junio 2010. úmero especial
* Gentile, Brigidina, ed. ''L’Altra Penelope: antologia di scrittici di lingua spagnola.'' Salerno-Milano: Oèdipus, 2008.
* Ortega, Julio and María Ramírez Ribes, eds. ''El hacer poético''. Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana, 2008.
* Agosín, Marjorie, ed. ''Writing Toward Hope''. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.
* Suárez Coalla, Paquita, ed. ''Aquí me tocó escribir: antología de escritores y escritoras latinos en Nueva York''. Spain: Trabe, 2005.
* Cocco de Filippis, Daisy, and Sonia Rivera Valdés, eds. ''Conversación entre escritoras del Caribe Hispano''. NY: CUNY, Hunter College, 2001. 2v.
* ''Antología de la poesía cósmica puertorriqueña''. México: Frente de Afirmación Hispanista, 2003. Vol. 2.
* Nieves, Myrna, ed. ''Mujeres como islas: antología de narradoras cubanas, dominicanas y puertorriqueñas.'' Santo Domingo, Cuba: Ediciones Ferilibro y Ediciones Unión, 2002.
* Arroyo Vázquez, Elsa R. and Julia Cristina Ortíz Lugo, eds. ''Leer para escribir''. San Juan: Playa Mayor, 1994. Santillana (eleventh ed.), 2006.
* Libertad condicional. México: La Luciérnaga, 2000.
* Dávila, Arlene, and Agustín Laó-Montes, eds. ''Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York.'' NY: Columbia University Press, 2001.
* Newson, Adele S., and Linda Strong-Leek. ''Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars.'' Editorial Peter Lang, 1998.
* Balutansky, Kathleen M., and Marie-Agnes Sourieau, eds. ''Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature And Identity.'' Barbados, Florida: University Press of Florida, The Press University of the West Indies, 1998.
''Not Myself Without You.''
Arizona State University, Bilingual Review Press Website.
* McKinney, Sandy
"''Bestiary: Selected Poems 1986-1997.'' (Review)."
''Foreword Reviews'' (Sept/Oct 2004).
Directory of Poets and Writers
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