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Juan Gelman
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Juan Gelman (3 May 1930 14 January 2014) was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. Gelman received the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature. His works celebrate life but are also tempered with social and political commentary and reect his own painful experiences with the politics of his country.

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1 Life and career 2 Works 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Juan Gelman, argentinian poet, winner of Cervantes Prize in 2007

Life and career

Juan Gelman was born in Buenos Aires, in the Villa Crespo neighborhood, in 1930. He was the third son of Ukrainian immigrants.[1] His father, Jos Gelman, was a social revolutionary who participated in the 1905 revolution in Russia; he immigrated to Argentina, went back shortly after the Bolshevik revolution, and then returned to Argentina for good, disillusioned.[1] Juan Gelman learned to read when he was three years old, and spent much of his childhood reading and playing soccer. He developed an interest in poetry at a very young age, inuenced by his brother Boris, who read to him several poems in Russian, a language that Juan did not know. The experience of reading Dostoevsky's "The Insulted and Humiliated" at age eight made a profound impression on him. As a young man he was a member of several notable literary groups and later became an important journalist. He also worked as a translator at the United Nations. He has always been an ardent political activist. In 1975 he became involved with the Montoneros, though he later distanced himself from the group. After the 1976 Argentine coup, he was forced into exile from Argentina. In 1976, his son Marcelo and his pregnant daughter-in-law, Maria Claudia, aged 20 and 19, were kidnapped from their home. They became two of the 30,000 desaparecidos, the people who **vanished** without a trace during the reign of the military junta. In 1990 Gelman was led to identify his son's remains (he had been executed and buried in a barrel lled with sand and cement), and years later, in 2000, he was able to trace his granddaughter, born in a backdoor hospital before Maria Claudia's murder and given to a pro-government family in Uruguay. The remains of Maria Claudia have not yet been recovered. During his long exile, Gelman lived in Europe until 1988, then in United States and later in Mexico, with his wife, Argentinian psychologist Mara La Madrid.

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In 1997, Juan Gelman received the Argentine National Poetry Prize, in recognition of his life's work, and in 2007 the Cervantes Prize, the most important prize for Spanish writers. He has also had a long and brilliant career as journalist, writing for the Argentinian newspaper Pagina/12 until his death. Gelman included Uruguayan police ofcer Hugo Campos Hermida in a legal suit lodged in Spain for the "disappearance" of his niece in Uruguay.[2]

Works
Poetry: Violn y otras cuestiones, Buenos Aires, Gleizer, 1956. El juego en que andamos, Buenos Aires, Nueva Expresin, 1959. Velorio del solo, Buenos Aires, Nueva Expresin, 1961. Gotn (1956-1962), Buenos Aires, La Rosa Blindada, 1962. (Neuauage 1996) Clera Buey, La Habana, La Tertulia, 1965. (Neuauage 1994) Los poemas de Sidney West, Buenos Aires, Galerna, 1969. (Neuauage 1995) Fbulas, Buenos Aires, La Rosa Blindada, 1971. Relaciones, Buenos Aires, La Rosa Blindada, 1973. Hechos y Relaciones, Barcelona, Lumen, 1980. Si dulcemente, Barcelona, Lumen, 1980. Citas y Comentarios, Visor Madrid, 1982. Hacia el Sur, Mxico, Marcha, 1982. Com/posiciones (1983-1984), Barcelona, Ediciones del Mall, 1986. Interrupciones I, Buenos Aires, Libros de Tierra Firme, 1986. Interrupciones II, Buenos Aires, Libros de Tierra Firme, 1988. Anunciaciones, Madrid, Visor, 1988. Carta a mi madre, Buenos Aires, Libros de Tierra Firme, 1989. Dibaxu, Buenos Aires, Seix Barral, 1994. Salarios del impo, Buenos Aires, Libros de Tierra Firme, 1993. Incompletamente, Buenos Aires, Seix Barral, 1997. Valer la pena, Buenos Aires, Seix Barral, 2001. Pas que fue ser, Buenos Aires, Seix Barral, 2004. Mundar, Buenos Aires, Seix Barral, 2007. De atrsalante en su porfa, Madrid, Visor, und Buenos Aires, Seix Barral, 2009 El emperrado corazn amora, Barcelona, Tusquets und Buenos Aires, Seix Barral, 2011 Anthologies: Poemas, Casa de las Amricas, La Habana, 1960. Obra potica, Corregidor, Buenos Aires, 1975. Poesa, Casa de las Amricas, La Habana, 1985. Antologa potica, Vintn, Montevideo, (1993). Antologa personal, Desde la Gente, Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos, Buenos Aires, 1993. En abierta oscuridad, Siglo XXI, Mxico, 1993. Antologa potica, Espasa Calpe, Buenos Aires, 1994. De palabra (1971-1987). Prefazione di Julio Cortzar, Visor, Madrid, 1994. Ocio Ardiente (2005), Patrimonio Nacional y la Universidad de Salamanca. Fulgor del aire (2007), Lom Ediciones, Santiago del Chile
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De palabra: Poesa III (1973-1989) (2008), Visor Libros, Madrid Bajo la luvia ajena (2009), Seix Barral, Barcelona Prose: Prosa de prensa, Ediciones B, Espaa, 1997 Ni el aco perdn de Dios/Hijos de desaparecidos (coautore con Mara La Madrid), Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1997 Nueva prosa de prensa, Ediciones B Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1999 Afganistan/Iraq: el imperio empantanado, Buenos Aires, 2001 Miradas, Seix Barral, Buenos Aires, 2005 Escritos urgentes, Capital Intellectual, Buenos Aires, 2009 Escritos urgentes II, Capital intellectual, Buenos Aires, 2010 El ciempis y la araa, ilustraciones de Eleonora Arroyo, Capital intellectual, Mxico, 2011 Criticism: Juan Gelman : esperanza, utopa y resistencia / Pablo Montanaro, 2006 La escritura del duelo en la poesa de Juan Gelman / Genevive Fabry, 2005 El llamado de los desaparecidos : sobre la poesa de Juan Gelman / Edmundo Gmez Mango, 2004 Juan Gelman y la nueva poesa hispanoamericana / Miguel Correa Mujica, 2001 Juan Gelman : poesa de sombra de la memoria / Elena Tamargo Cordero, 2000 Acercamientos a Juan Gelman / Jos Bru, 2000 Palabra de Gelman : en entrevistas y notas periodsticas / Pablo Montanaro, 1998 La poesa de Gelman: cuando surgen las palabras" / Daniel Freidemberg, 1997 Juan Gelman : las estrategias de la otredad : heteronimia, intertextualidad, traduccin / Mara del Carmen Sillato, 1996 Como temblor del aire : la poesa de Juan Gelman, ensayos crticos / Lilin Uribe, 1995 Conar en el misterio : viaje por la poesa de Juan Gelman / Jorge Boccanera, 1994 Juan Gelman : contra las fabulaciones del mundo / Miguel Dalmaroni, 1993 Conversaciones con Juan Gelman : contraderrota, Montoneros y la revolucin perdida / Roberto Mero, 1987 La poesa de Juan Gelman o la ternura desatada / Hugo Achugar, 1985 Juan Gelman, poeta argentino / Beatriz Varela de Rozas, 2004 Translated works in English: Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems, trans.: Joan Lindgren, University of California Press, 1997 The Poems of Sidney West, trans.: Katherine M. Hedeen & Victor Rodrguez Nuez, Salt Publishing, 2009 Between Words: Juan Gelman Public Letter, trans.: Lisa Rose Bradford, CIAL, 2010 Commentaries and Citations, trans.: Lisa Rose Bradford, Coimbra Editions, Poetry in Translation, 2011 Nightingales again, trans.: J. S. Tennant, in MPT Review, Series 3 no. 11 Frontiers, 2011 Com/positions, trans.: Lisa Rose Bradford, Coimbra Editions, Poetry in Translation, 2013

See also
Argentine literature Dirty War
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References
1. ^ a b "I am the only Argentinian in the family. My parents and my two siblings were Ukrainian. They immigrated in 1928." Juan Gelman: Semblanza (http://www.sololiteratura.com/gel/gelsemblanza.htm) (Spanish) In the same brief autobiographical text, Gelman states that his mother was a student of medicine and the daughter of a rabbi from a small town. "[My parents] never shut us up in a ghetto, culturally or otherwise. [...] I received no religious education." Gelman would later write some poems in Ladino, i.e., Judeo-Spanish; he is also known for being sharply critical of Israel. 2. ^ A los 73 aos muri el inspector mayor (r) Hugo Campos Hermida (http://www.larepublica.com.uy/lr3/larepublica/2001/11/25/politica/63458/a-los-73-anos-murio-el-inspector-mayorr-hugo-campos-hermida/) (Spanish)

External links
Todo sobre la poesa de Juan Gelman (http://www.juangelman.net) (Spanish) La bitcora de Gelman (http://www.juangelman.com/wordpress/) (Spanish) Poemas de Juan Gelman (http://www.poemasde.net/poemas-de-juan-gelman/) (Spanish) Obras de Juan Gelman, Solo Literatura (http://sololiteratura.com/gel/gelobras.htm) (Spanish) Speciale di EL MUNDO su Juan Gelman (http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2007/11/cultura/premio_cervantes/index.html) (Spanish) Poeticas de Gelman (http://poeticas.es/?s=gelman) (Spanish) Juan Gelman por elortiba (http://www.elortiba.org/gelman.html) (Spanish) Juan Gelman a media voz (http://amediavoz.com/gelman.htm) (Spanish) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juan_Gelman&oldid=591845250" Categories: 1930 births 2014 deaths Argentine writers Argentine poets Argentine translators People from Buenos Aires Premio Cervantes winners Guggenheim Fellows Argentine people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent This page was last modied on 22 January 2014 at 09:13. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-prot organization.

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