Hanni Ossott
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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.[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
- 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
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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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- Writers from Caracas
- Venezuelan women poets
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- 1946 births
- 2002 deaths
- Central University of Venezuela alumni
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- 20th-century Venezuelan poets
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- 20th-century Venezuelan women writers
- English–Spanish translators
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