Gloria Gervitz (29 March 1943 – 19 April 2022) was a Mexican poet and translator of Ukrainian Jewish descent.
Gloria Gervitz | |
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 Gervitz in 2018 | |
| Born | 29 March 1943 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died | 19 April 2022 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | Poet, translator |
| Notable works | Migraciones |
| Notable awards | Neruda Award |
Biography
editGervitz was born in Mexico City on 29 March 1943.[1] Her paternal family arrived to Mexico in 1929, when her father was 9 years old.[2] She studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana.[3] Gervitz resided in the United States.
Career
editGervitz studied Art History at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has translated works by Kenneth Rexroth, Susan Howe, Lorine Niedecker, Rita Dove, and Samuel Beckett into Spanish.[1][3]
Between August and September 1976,[2] when she was 33 years old, she began writing an organic poem, Migraciones,[4] which was first published in 1979 and is still in process.[5] Since then, new additions to the poem have appeared in expanded and revised editions. Migraciones is the main work of the poet and it has been compared with other long poems such as Los Cantos by Ezra Pound, Cántico by Jorge Guillén, the Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz or the work by Saint-John Perse. Fragments of the poem have been translated into more than 18 languages.[1] The poem, to date, consists of seven parts and more than 120 written pages;[6] although most of the text is in Spanish, Migraciones contains phrases and words in Yiddish.[7]
Awards
editIn 2011, she received the PEN Mexico Prize for Literary Excellence.[3] In 2019, Gervitz received the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award, which is awarded by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile.[8][9] In 2022, she received a posthumous PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award for Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020 (NYRB Poets, 2021).
Works
edit- 1979 - Shajarit
- 1987 - Yizkor
- 1986 - Fragmento de ventana
- 1991 - Migraciones (Shajarit and Yizkor, plus the third part, entitled Leteo)
- 1993 - Migraciones (including the fourth part, Pythia)
- 1996 - Migraciones (including the fifth part, Equinoccio)
- 2000 - Migraciones (including the sixth part, Treno)
- 2003 - Migraciones (including the seventh part, Septiembre).[10]
- 2021 - Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020
References
edit- ^ a b c “Migraciones”, selección de poemas de Gloria Gervitz. Enlace Judío
- ^ a b Gloria Gervitz y 'Migraciones': el poema de una vida. Milenio
- ^ a b c Gervitz, Gloria
- ^ Migrationer. Translation and epilogue by Ulf Eriksson and Magnus William-Olsson, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2009. ISBN 9789146220152
- ^ Poetas do Mundo - México - Glória Gervitz (1943) Archived 22 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Um Buraco na Sombra.
- ^ Nobelprisomtalade Gloria Gervitz berättar om sitt livsverk. Göteborgs-Posten
- ^ "Escribir es un acto de fe". SwissInfo
- ^ Gloria Gervitz gana el Neruda: "Este es mi primer premio". La Tercera
- ^ Gloria Gervitz gana Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda 2019. El Universal
- ^ El cuerpo de la escritura. Una mirada a la obra de Gloria Gervitz