Suleika Ibáñez

Suleika Ibáñez
Born
Suleika Ibáñez Iglesias

(1930-12-08)8 December 1930
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died7 March 2013(2013-03-07) (aged 82)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation(s)Writer, teacher, translator
SpouseVladimiro Collazo
ChildrenMarcia Collazo
Parents
RelativesUlalume González de León [es] (sister)

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 Roberto Ibáñez [es] and Sara de Ibáñez. Her siblings were the writers Ulalume González de León [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 Instituto de Profesores Artigas [es] (IPA), and at the Catholic University of Uruguay.[1]

She received awards in contests by Givré (Buenos Aires, 1976), Ediciones de la Banda Oriental [es] (1985),[2] and the newspaper La Hora (1986).[5] In 1989, the Departmental Intendency of Montevideo [es] awarded her two first prizes in poetry and narrative. That year, she and Ricardo Prieto [es] shared a dramaturgy prize from the publishing house TAE [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

References

  1. ^ a b c d Legnani, Raúl (15 March 2013). "Despedida a Suleika, la olvidada" [Goodbye to Suleika, the Forgotten]. La República (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Falleció Suleika Ibáñez" [Suleika Ibáñez Dies]. El Observador (in Spanish). 9 March 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  3. ^ Larre Borges, Ana Inés (15 March 2013). "Las palabras" [The Words]. Brecha (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  4. ^ Galemire, Julia. "Galia, con quien tanto quería". La Onda Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d "Recordando a Suleika Ibáñez" [Remembering Suleika Ibáñez] (in Spanish). Montevideo. Agencia Uruguaya de Noticias. 13 March 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2020.