Juan Gelman (1930–2014)
Author of Dark Times Filled with Light: The Selected Work of Juan Gelman
About the Author
Juan Gelman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 3, 1930. He studied chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, but decided to become a poet and joined the New Poetry movement in the 1950s. He was arrested in 1963 for joining the Communist Party. After he was released, he worked as a show more journalist and editor for several left-leaning magazines including Panorama, La Opinión and Noticias, which was tied to the radical guerrilla group Montoneros. He was on a foreign public relations tour for the Montoneros to highlight alleged human rights abuses when the military took over the country in 1976. Some 30,000 people are thought to have been murdered, kidnapped and tortured during the seven-year military dictatorship including his son and pregnant daughter-in-law. Through a source in the Roman Catholic Church, he found out that his daughter-in-law gave birth before being killed, but it would take him 22 years to find his granddaughter, who was secretly given to a Uruguayan police officer and his wife for adoption. He renounced his membership in the Montoneros in 1979, which provoked the radical group to accuse him of treason and sentence him to death. He spent the rest of his life in exile. He wrote more than 20 collections of poetry and won several awards including Juan Rulfo Award in 2000, the Pablo Neruda Award in 2005, the Queen Sofía Award in 2005, and the Cervantes Prize in 2007. He died from leukemia on January 14, 2014 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Gelman in 2007
Works by Juan Gelman
Debi decir te amo: Sus mejores poemas de amor : antologia personal (Poesia Planeta) (Spanish Edition) (1997) 5 copies, 1 review
Oficio ardiente/ Burning Occupation (Biblioteca De America/ Library of America) (Spanish Edition) (2005) 3 copies
El juego en que andamos 2 copies
Hoy : Ciudad de Mxico, 2011-2014 2 copies
Como tirar contra la muerte 2 copies
Poemas esenciales 1 copy
Poesía 1 copy
.Poesía Reunida 1 copy
Carta a mi madre 1 copy
Interrupciones2 1 copy
Interrupciones II 1 copy
Gotán 1 copy
Antología poética 1 copy
Isso 1 copy
Interrupciones 1. Poesía. 1 copy
Obra poética 1 copy
Violín y otras cuestiones 1 copy
País que fué será 1 copy
Associated Works
The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present (2024) — Contributor — 17 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Gelman, Juan
- Birthdate
- 1930-05-03
- Date of death
- 2014-01-14
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- poet
- Awards and honors
- Premio Juan Rulfo (2000)
Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2007) - Nationality
- Argentina
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Place of death
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Associated Place (for map)
- Argentina
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Reviews
“¿Qué castigabas cuando me
castigabas?
No te pregunto, me pregunto.
Ya sé que es tarde para todo, menos
este saber de vos que no se sabe.”
Tiene uno que otro verso sublime, pero aún así no suficiente como para compararlo con Girondo, Borges, Porchia, ni Bayley (para mí, los mejores poetas argentinos). Aunque tal vez no sea justo crearme una opinión basada únicamente en este libro, los poetas -se ha demostrado científicamente, hah!- suelen desmejorar con el tiempo, y este tiene show more toda la desventaja de ser una de sus ultimas antologías. Así que: [b:Los poemas de Sidney West|1119043|Los poemas de Sidney West|Juan Gelman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347493818s/1119043.jpg|1106110], voy por ti. show less
Poesía díficil: varias lecturas para comprender lo dicho, otras tantas para reconocer lo sentido y algunas más para oír su cadencia. Fue una lectura difícil y los frutos no me resultaron suficientemente satisfactorios.
Signed: 'Utrecht for flip who likes books flip books and remembers this project for so many years! .... 2011 Marcelo'. There is also a German hardcover edition in my collection published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003.
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- Works
- 92
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 393
- Popularity
- #61,673
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 8
- ISBNs
- 125
- Languages
- 8