Hanni Ossott

Hanni Ossott
Born
Hanni Ossott

14 February 1946
Caracas, Venezuela
Died31 December 2002 (aged 56)
Caracas, Venezuela
EducationUniversidad Central de Venezuela
Occupationpoet
SpouseManuel Caballero

Hanni Ossott (14 February 1946 – 31 December 2002) was a Venezuelan poet, translator and critic.

Life

She was born in Caracas and she received her bachelor's degree in the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she was also a professor. She was awarded the José Antonio Ramos Sucre Prize and the Lazo Martí Prize and she worked as a translator and a critic. She translated some of the works of Rainer Maria Rilke and Emily Dickinson into Spanish. Her poetry explored themes of existence, sickness, identity, the soul, and the abstract. She was respected as one of the great Venezuelan poets of her time, but remains virtually unknown outside of Venezuela.

Main works

References

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  2. ↑ Llorens, Manuel (2010). "Poetry Talks Back to Psychiatry: Poetic Retellings of Psychiatric Experience in Venezuela". Review of Disability Studies. 10 (2). ISSN 1553-3697.
  3. ↑ Lucca, Rafael Arráiz (1996). "Venezolanische Poesie: Un Paseo Para Turistas". INTI (in Spanish) (43/44): 242. ISSN 0732-6750. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
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  5. ↑ Márquez, Wladimir (2008). "A fuerza de ciudad: de poesía contemporánea venezolana". Confluencia (in Spanish). 23 (2). ISSN 0888-6091. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  6. ↑ Proaño, Franklin (1993). La poesía femenina actual de Sudamérica (in Spanish). Potomac, Md., USA: Scripta Humanistica. p. 357. ISBN 9781882528042.
  7. ↑ Arria, Eugenia (2022). "SOMOS LO QUE HABITAMOS: POÉTICAS DEL ESPACIO EN CASA DE AGUA Y DE SOMBRAS DE HANNI OSSOTT". Revista Chilena de Literatura (in Spanish) (105). ISSN 0048-7651. Retrieved 8 February 2024.