Juan Gelman, (Born in Buenos Aires on the 3rd May, 1930), is considered by many to be one of the greatest contemporary poets, and possibly the most important living Argentine poet.^{[weasel words]} He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature. His poems contain themes touching on his Jewish heritage, family, Argentina, exile, and the tango. His works celebrate life but are also tempered with social and political commentary and reflect his own painful experiences with the politics of his country. For other uses, see Buenos Aires (disambiguation). ... Jorge Luis Borges Argentine literature is placed among the most important in Spanish language, with world-famous writers such as José Hernández, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig, Julio Cortázar and Ernesto Sábato. ...

Life

Juan Gelman was born in Buenos Aires, in the Villa Crespo neighborhood, in 1930. He was the third son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He learned how to read when he was three years old, and spent a lot of his childhood biking, playing soccer, and reading. He developed an interest in poetry at a very young age, influenced by his brother Boris who was an avid reader. He read Dostoevsky's The Insulted and Humiliated at eight, and subsequently became feverish in the days following. As a young man, he was part of many literary groups and later got an important job as a journalist. Villa Crespo is a middle-class neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in the geographical centre of the city. ... Soccer redirects here. ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, IPA: , sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, or Dostoevski  ) (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821–February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and lasting effect... The Insulted and Humiliated (also known as The Insulted and the Injured) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1861, is a book about the huge contradictions present in life. ...

He was an ardent political activist until 1975, and got involved with the Montoneros, though he later distanced himself from them. After the 1976 Argentine coup, he was forced into exile from Argentina for twelve years. In 1976, both his son Marcelo and his pregnant daughter-in-law Maria Claudia (who were 20 years of age at the time) were kidnapped from his home and executed. They became two of the countless desaparecidos, the people who vanished without a trace during the military regime. He was able to find his granddaughter, who was born before Maria Claudia's murder and given to a pro-government family, in the year 2000 in Uruguay. He lived in Europe until 1988, when he returned to Argentina and began working for the Buenos Aires newspaper Pagina 12. In 1997, Juan Gelman received the Argentine National Poetry Prize, in recognition of his excellent work. He now lives in Mexico with his wife, and continues to write for Pagina 12. Official logo of Montoneros The Movimiento Peronista Montonero was an Argentinian radical leftist nationalist-catholic guerrilla group, active during the 1970s. ... The 1976 Argentine coup was a coup détat that overthrew Isabel Perón on 24 March 1976, in Argentina. ... Exile (band) may refer to: Exile - The American country music band Exile - The Japanese pop music band Category: ... Desaparecidos means literally the disappeared in Spanish, and is a reference to people who were arrested, often illegally, by various South American military governments and then vanished. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Página/12 is a newspaper based in Buenos Aires, Argentina founded in May 25, 1987 by journalist Jorge Lanata. ...

Gelman included Uruguayan police officer Hugo Campos Hermida in his complaint before the Spanish justice for the "disappearance" of his niece in Uruguay ^[1]. Hugo Campos Hermida (September 27, 1928 — November 24, 2001) was an Uruguayan police officer. ... Disappear redirects here. ...

Further Reading

Works:

• Unthinkable tenderness : selected poems / Juan Gelman; Joan Lindgren., 1997
• Pesar todo : antología / Juan Gelman., 2001
• En el hoy y mañana y ayer : antología personal / Juan Gelman., 2000

Criticism:

• Juan Gelman : esperanza, utopía y resistencia / Pablo Montanaro., 2006
• Oficio ardiente / Juan Gelman., 2005
• El llamado de los desaparecidos : sobre la poesía de Juan Gelmán / Edmundo Gómez Mango., 2004
• Juan Gelman : poesía de sombra de la memoria / Elena Tamargo Cordero., 2000
• Acercamientos a Juan Gelman / José Bru., 2000
• Palabra de Gelman : en entrevistas y notas periodísticas / Pablo Montanaro., 1998
• Juan Gelman : las estrategias de la otredad : heteronimia, intertextualidad, traducción / María del Carmen Sillato., 1996
• Como temblor del aire : la poesía de Juan Gelman, ensayos críticos / Lilián Uribe., 1995
• Confiar en el misterio : viaje por la poesía de Juan Gelman / Jorge A Boccanera., 1994
• Juan Gelman : contra las fabulaciones del mundo / Miguel Dalmaroni., 1993
• Conversaciones con Juan Gelman : contraderrota, Montoneros y la revolución perdida / Roberto Mero., 1987

References

See also

• Argentine literature
• "Dirty War"

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External links

• Juan Gelman's blog