Cristina Peri Rossi
Uruguayan novelist, poet, translator, and author of short stories / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cristina Peri Rossi (born 12 November 1941) is a Uruguayan novelist, poet, translator, and author of short stories.
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Born | (1941-11-12) 12 November 1941 (age 82) |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, poet, translator, and author |
Awards | Miguel de Cervantes Prize |
Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She has been a pioneer and one of the female authors associated to the Latin American Boom. Peri Rossi has lived in Barcelona since 1972, after a civic-military dictatorship was established in Uruguay and censored her works. She has translated into Spanish authors such as Clarice Lispector and Monique Wittig. She has worked for several newspapers and media agencies such as Diario 16, El PeriĆ³dico and Agencia EFE.
Peri Rossi won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2021,[1] the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.