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| Hanni Ossott | |
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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 |
Hanni Ossott (14 February 1946 – 31 December 2002) was a Venezuelan poet, translator and critic.
Life
She 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. She was respected as one of the great Venezuelan poets of her time, but remains virtually unknown outside of Venezuela.
Main works
- 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).
- Como leer la poesía (2005).
References
- 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
- 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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