Name: State of Exile (in Spanish)
SKU: 1916003
Price: 47.83 NZD
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Author: Cristina Peri Rossi
ISBN: 9780872864634

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cristina Peri Rossi

Publisher

City Lights Publishers

Year

2008

Language

Spanish

Pages

149

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0872864634

ISBN13

9780872864634

Synopsis "State of Exile (in Spanish)"

Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Uruguay and is considered a leading light of the “Latin American Boom” generation. In 1972, after her work was banned under a repressive military regime, she left her country, moving to Spain.This collection of poems, written during her journey and the first period of her self-exile, was so personal that it remained unpublished for almost thirty years. It is accompanied here by two brilliant essays on exile, one by Peri Rossi and the other by translator Marilyn Buck, who is an American political prisoner, exiled in her own land. Cristina Peri Rossi is the author of thirty-seven works, including The Ship of Fools.

Cristina Peri Rossi

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Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1941. She studied Music and Biology and graduated in Comparative Literature. She has collaborated with various media outlets and has done significant work as a translator. She published her first book of stories in 1963, and soon became one of the most notable writers of her generation. In 1972, she moved to Barcelona and acquired Spanish nationality. Her narrative work includes titles such as Los museos abandonados, La nave de los locos, Solitario de amor, Desastres íntimos (Lumen, 1997; 2022) and Habitaciones privadas. Lumen also published many of her poetry collections, among which stand out Diáspora, Babel bárbara (Ciudad de Barcelona Award), Otra vez Eros, Aquella noche, Las musas inquietantes and Estrategias del deseo. She has been distinguished, among others, with the following awards: Award Book for poetry (1992) and story (1994), Rafael Alberti International Poetry Award (2000), Loewe (2008), Mario Vargas Llosa NH for stories (2010), José Donoso (2019) and Cervantes Award (2021), the last two in recognition of her entire body of work.

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