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 SofÃa 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
Works by Juan Gelman
Debi decir te amo: Sus mejores poemas de amor : antologia personal (Poesia Planeta) (Spanish Edition) (1997) 5 copies
Amor que serena, termina? 4 copies
El juego en que andamos 2 copies
Oficio ardiente/ Burning Occupation (Biblioteca De America/ Library of America) (Spanish Edition) (2005) 2 copies
El ciempiés y la araña 2 copies
Hoy : Ciudad de México, 2011-2014 2 copies
Interrupciones2 1 copy
PoesÃa 1 copy
Poemas esenciales 1 copy
Poemas 1 copy
El paÃs que fué será 1 copy
Isso 1 copy
ViolÃn y otras cuestiones 1 copy
Interrupciones 1. PoesÃa. 1 copy
AntologÃa poética 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Gelman, Juan
- Birthdate
- 1930-05-03
- Date of death
- 2014-01-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Place of death
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Occupations
- poet
- Awards and honors
- Premio Juan Rulfo (2000)
Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2007)
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- Works
- 77
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- 304
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- ISBNs
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