Alegria,
Claribel Birth Date: 1924
Birth Place: Esteli, Nicaragua, although she was raised in exile in
Santa Ana, El Salvador.
Education: She received her B.A. from George Washington University.
Professional Career: Alegria is a poet, novelist and essayist. She
was finalist in the 1964 Seix Barral competition for Cenizas de
Izalco and won the Casa de las Americas poerty award in 1978 for
Sobrevivo.
Works
- Saudade = Sorrow.
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, 1999.
- Umbrales = Thresholds: Poems.
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1997.
- Variaciones en clave de mi.
Madrid, Spain: Libertarias/Prodhufi, 1993.
- Fugues. Willimantic,
CT: Curbstone Press 1993.
- Fuga de Canto Grande.
UCA Editores, 1992.
- Mujer del rio/Woman of the River.
Pittsburgh, PA:University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
- Y este poema rio.
Managua, Nicaragua: Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, 1988.
- Luisa en el pais de la realidad/Luisa in Realityland.
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press/Talman, 1987.
- Pueblo de Dios y de mandinga.
Barcelona, Spain: Lumen, 1986.
- Album familiar. San Jose,
Costa Rica: Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, 1984.
- Sobrevivo. Cuba: Casa
de las Americas (Cuba), 1978.
- El deten. Barcelona,
Spain: Lumen, 1977.
- Pagare a cobrar y otros poemas.
Barcelona, Spain: Ocnos, 1973.
- Aprendizaje. Universitaria
de El Salvador, 1970.
- Cenizas de Izalco. Barcelona,
Spain: Seix Barral, 1966.
- Via unica. Montevideo,
Uruguay: Alfa, 1965.
- Huesped de mi tiempo.
Buenos Aires: Americalee, 1961.
- Tres cuentos. El Salvador
Ministerio de Cultura, 1958.
- Acuario. Santiago, Chile:
Editorial Universitaria, 1955.
- Vigilias. Mexico: Ediciones
Poesia de America, 1953.
- Suite. Argentina: Brigadas
Liricas, 1951.
- Anillo de silencio. Mexico:
Botas, 1948.
Belli,
Gioconda
Birth Date: 1949
Birthplace: Managua, Nicaragua
Education: Attended Charles Morris Price School.
Professional Career: : Alfa Omega Advertising Co., Nicaragua, account
executive, 1973-75; Garnier Advertising, San Jose, Costa Rica, creative
director, 1976-78; Sandinista National Liberation Front, Nicaragua,
diplomat, 1978-79; Ministry of Economic Planning, Nicaragua, director
of communications and public relations, 1979-82; Sandinista National
Liberation Front, international press liaison, 1982-83, executive
secretary and spokesperson, 1983-84; Nicaragua Writer's Union, Nicaragua,
foreign-affairs secretary, 1983-88; Sistema Nacional de Publicidad,
Nicaragua, managing director, 1984-86; writer, 1986--. She was awarded
the Young Poetry Prize from National University, 1972; Casa de las
Americas Poetry Prize, 1978, for Linea de fuego; Book
Sellers, Editors and Publishers Prize from Friedrich Ebhert Foundation,
1989, for The Inhabited Woman; literary fellowship,
1989.
Works
- Erase una vez una mujer.
San Jose, Costa Rica: EDUCA, 1998.
- Apogeo. Managua,
Nicaragua: Anama Ediciones Centroamericanas, 1997.
- Sortilegio contra el frio.
Germany, 1992.
- El ojo de la mujer. Managua,
Nicaragua: Editorial Vanguardia, 1991.
- Nicaragua under Fire, Greville.
1989.
- De las costilla de Eva.
Managua, Nicaragua: Nueva Nicaragua, 1987.
- Amor insurrecto. Managua,
Nicaragua: Nueva Nicaragua, 1984.
- Truenos y arco iris.
Managua, Nicaragua: Nueva Nicaragua, 1982.
- Linea de fuego. Havana,
Cuba: Casa de las Americas, 1978.
- Sobre la grama. Managua,
Nicaragua, 1974.
Zamora,
Daisy
Birth Date: 1950
Birthplace: Managua, Nicaragua
Education: Attended University of Managua
Professional Career: Zamora is a poet, painter, and psychologist.
She is a professor of literature at the Universidad Centroamericana
in Managua, Nicaragua. She also worked as an announcer for the Radio
Sandino (underground radio station). She served as vice-minister for
culture in Nicaragua and appeared in the television series Language
of Life, broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service.
Works
Clean Slate: New and Selected Poems.
Willimantic,CT: Curbstone Press, 1993.
Riverbed of Memory. San
Francisco: City Lights, 1992.
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