Damaris Calderón Campos (born 1967) is a Cuban poet based in Chile. She has won several awards for her poetry work, including the 1998 Premio Revista de Libros and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and she is a professor at Finis Terrae University.
Damaris Calderón | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Havana, Cuba |
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| Occupation | Poet |
| Employer | Finis Terrae University |
Biography
editDamaris Calderón Campos was born in 1967 in Havana, and she graduated from the University of Havana.[1] She started writing several poetry collections - Con el terror del quilibrista (1988), Duras aguas del trópico (1992), Duro de roer (1992), and Guijarros (1994),[1] some on which were, according to Carmen Alemany Bay, part of a trend "questioning of the idea of a revolutionary nation" like Cuba amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[2]
She then moved to Chile in 1995, and she was educated at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, where she got her master's degree in classical languages and culture.[1] She then resumed her career in poetry collections, publishing Babosas: dejando mi propio rastro in 1998 and Se adivina un país in 1999.[1] In 1999, she won the Premio Revista de Libros for her poetry collection Sílabas. Ecce Homo.[3] Five of her poems were part of Mark Weiss' 2009 book The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.[4] In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.[1] In 2014, she won the Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura Award for Best Published Literary Work in Poetry for her collection Las pulsaciones de la ataque.[5]
She began teaching at the Finis Terrae University,[1] where she later became professor.[6] Together with María Elena Hernandez Caballero, she founded and became director of publishing house Las Dos Fridas.[7] Additionally, she once had an anthology of modern Chilean poetry under her editorship, Cercados por las aguas.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "Damaris Calderón". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ Bay, Carmen Alemany (2008). "NACIÓN Y MEMORIA EN LA POESÍA CUBANA DE LA REVOLUCIÓN/NATION AND MEMORY IN THE POETRY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION". Atenea (497): 23–35 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "POESIA: Damaris Calderón Recibió Premio Revista de Libros". El Mercurio. 2 October 1999. pp. C9. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ Hidalgo, Amarilis (2011). "Poesía y tearo cubano: Dos mundos que se encuentran y se separan de Jesús". Chasqui. 40 (1): 189–194. ProQuest 899256518 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Anuncian Premios del Consejo del Libro". El Mercurio. 27 September 2014. ProQuest 1565684233. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Damaris Calderón y su dialéctica. Entrevista". Vallejo & Co. (in Spanish). 21 May 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Poemas de María Elena Hernández". web.uchile.cl. Retrieved 1 September 2024.