Tilsa Otta
Tilso Otta Vildoso (b. 1982) is an audiovisual artist and writer. She has published four books of poetry, a book of short stories, a children's poetry book, and a comic book. She creates experimental and fictional films and leads poetry workshops for adults and children.
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Tilsa Otta Vildoso es escritora y artista audiovisual. Ha publicado los poemarios “Mi niña veneno en el jardín de las baladas del recuerdo” (2004) e “Indivisible” (2007) con la editorial Álbum del universo bakterial, y “Antimateria. Gran acelerador de poemas” (2014, Ediciones Neutrinos, Argentina; 2015, Editorial Pesopluma, Lima; 2016, Juan Malasuerte, México). También el libro de cuentos “Un ejemplar extraño” (Solar, 2012) y el cómic “VA” (Contexto Editorial, 2017), en
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Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas (The Dead Girls), Dos Crimenes (Two Crimes), and Los Relámpagos de Agosto (The Lightning of August). His plays include Susana y los Jóvenes and Ante varias esfinges, both dating from the 1950s. In 1955, Ibarguengoitia received a Rockefeller grant to study in New York City; five years later he received the Mexico City literary award.
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Volumes of translation include My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, (Mal-O-Mar:2009), The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore by Jean-Luc Hennig, (Semiotext(e): 2009), and the forthcoming Preliminary Notes Toward a Theory of the YoungGirl by TIQQUN, (Semiotext(e): 2012).
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Luego de estudiar Economía Agrícola en la Universidad de Costa Rica, Chaves empezó a escribir como free-lancer. Su primer libro de poemas, El anónimo, fue publicado por la Editorial Guayacán en 1996. En 1997, su segundo libro, Los animales que imaginamos, ganó el Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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He is a Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian who was born in Gaza and has spent his life there. He is the founder of the Edward Said Library, Gaza’s first English-language library. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear is his debut book of poems. It won a 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
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