Suleika Ibáñez

Suleika Ibáñez Iglesias (8 December 1930 – 7 March 2013) was a Uruguayan writer, teacher, and translator.

Biography[]

Suleika Ibáñez was born in Montevideo on 8 December 1930, the daughter of poets  [es] and  [es]. Her siblings were the writers  [es] and Solveig Ibáñez.^[1][2] She was married to plastic artist Vladimiro Collazo, and was the mother of writer Marcia Collazo. Another daughter, Galia, died at a young age, and Ibáñez dedicated the 2002 book Galia, con quien tanto quería to her.^[3][4]

She taught literature in Lavalleja Department, in Melo, at the  [es] (IPA), and at the Catholic University of Uruguay.^[1]

She received awards in contests by Givré (Buenos Aires, 1976),  [es] (1985),^[2] and the newspaper La Hora (1986).^[5] In 1989, the  [es] awarded her two first prizes in poetry and narrative. That year, she and  [es] shared a dramaturgy prize from the publishing house  [es]. In 1998, she won first prize from Uruguay's Academia Nacional de Letras with an essay on Juana de Ibarbourou,^[2] and an honorable mention from the Biblioteca Nacional for an essay on César Vallejo.^[5] In 2010, she received the Cultural Career Award, during the Poets of the Two Shores Congress in Punta del Este, from the publishing house Botella al Mar.^[1][5]

Suleika Ibáñez died in Montevideo on 7 March 2013.^[1][5]

Selected works[]

• 1975 – Herrera y Reissig, su vida y obra
• 1985 – Feliz Año Nuevo (play)
• 1989 – Homenaje a Jean Genet (Nuestra Señora de las Flores)
• 1990 – Retrato de bellos y de bestias
• 1991 – El Jardín de las Delicias
• 1993 – Experiencias con ángeles y demonios
• 1998 – La hija del molinero y otros cuentos de fantasmas
• 2002 – Galia, con quien tanto quería

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