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Hanni Ossott (14 February 1946 – 31 December 2002)[1] was a Venezuelan poet, translator and critic.
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| Born | Hanni Ossott 14 February 1946 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | 31 December 2002 (aged 56) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Alma mater | Universidad Central de Venezuela |
| Occupation | poet |
| Spouse | Manuel Caballero |
Life
editShe was born in Caracas and she received her bachelor's degree in the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she was also a professor. She was awarded the José Antonio Ramos Sucre Prize and the Lazo Martí Prize and she worked as a translator and a critic. She translated some of the works of Rainer Maria Rilke and Emily Dickinson into Spanish. Her poetry explored themes of existence, sickness, identity, the soul, and the abstract.[2][3] She was respected as one of the great Venezuelan poets of her time,[4][5][6] but remains virtually unknown outside of Venezuela.[7]
Main works
edit- Hasta que llegue el día y huyan las sombras (1983)
- El reino donde la noche se abre(1986)
- Plegarias y penumbras (1986)
- Cielo, tu arco grande (1989)
- Casa de agua y de sombras (1992)
- El circo roto (1993).
References
edit- ^ Gallaraga Oropeza, Victor (2004). "Hanni Ossott". In Balderston, Daniel; Gonzalez, Mike (eds.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003. Routledge. ISBN 9780415306874.
- ^ Llorens, Manuel (2010). "Poetry Talks Back to Psychiatry: Poetic Retellings of Psychiatric Experience in Venezuela". Review of Disability Studies. 10 (2). ISSN 1553-3697.
- ^ Lucca, Rafael Arráiz (1996). "Venezolanische Poesie: Un Paseo Para Turistas". INTI (in Spanish) (43/44): 242. ISSN 0732-6750. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ Simonovis, Leonora (2013). "El Cuerpo De La Bestia: Una Mirada a Dos Poetas Venezolanas Contemporáneas". INTI (in Spanish) (77/78): 32. ISSN 0732-6750. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ Márquez, Wladimir (2008). "A fuerza de ciudad: de poesía contemporánea venezolana". Confluencia (in Spanish). 23 (2). ISSN 0888-6091. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ Proaño, Franklin (1993). La poesía femenina actual de Sudamérica (in Spanish). Potomac, Md., USA: Scripta Humanistica. p. 357. ISBN 9781882528042.
- ^ Arria, Eugenia (2022). "SOMOS LO QUE HABITAMOS: POÉTICAS DEL ESPACIO EN CASA DE AGUA Y DE SOMBRAS DE HANNI OSSOTT". Revista Chilena de Literatura (in Spanish) (105). ISSN 0048-7651. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
External links
edit- Hanni Ossott recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on 7 June 1990
- English translation of El reino dónde la noche se abre (The Realm Where Night Opens)
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