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Chilean poet
Ivonne Coñuecar (born September 26, 1980) is a
Mapuche writer, poet and journalist from
Coyhaique ,
Chile .
Her first novel, Coyhaiqueer, won the
Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019.
[1] She currently lives in
Argentina .
[2]
Early life and education
Coñuecar was born in 1980. At 14 years old, she began to write for a literary supplement of Diario de Aysén , from 1994 to 1998.
[3]
Coñuecar began to study law at the
Austral University of Chile , but later changed her studies to
communication studies and
journalism in the same university.
[2]
[4] She graduated there with a master's degree in Contemporary
Latin American literature , thanks to a scholarship granted by the
National Council of Culture and the Arts .
[2] Her thesis was about the literature of the
Aysén Region .
[5]
Career
In 2008, Coñuecar published her first collection of poems, Catabática , first part of a trilogy of poetry that includes Adiabática (2009) and Anabática (2014).
[3]
[6]
In 2018, she released her novel Coyhaiqueer , a book about the
queer community in the
Coyhaique commune,
[7] which received the
Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019.
[3]
Works
Novels
Coyhaiqueer (Ñire Negro Ediciones, 2018)
Poetry
Trasandina (Ñire Negro Ediciones, 2017)
Patriagonia (
LOM Ediciones , 2014)
Chagas (Editorial Fuga, 2010)
Adiabática (Ediciones Kultrún, 2009)
Catabática (Editorial Jabalí, 2008)
Participation in anthologies
Provinciana n.º 2. Revista de Literatura y pensamiento (
University of Valparaiso , 2019)
Con mi caracol y mi revólver. Muestra de poesía chilena reciente (Vallejo & Co, 2018)
¡¡BASTA!! 100 mujeres contra la violencia de género (Editorial Asterion, 2012)
Küme Dungun/Küme Wirin. Antología Poetas Mujeres Mapuche (
LOM Ediciones , 2011)
Voces para Lilith. Literatura contemporánea de temática lésbica en Sudamérica (ed. by
Claudia Salazar Jiménez , Editorial Estruendomudo, 2011)
Lof sitiado. Homenaje poético al pueblo mapuche de Chile (edited by Jaime Huenún, 2011)
Escrituras de la memoria, reescritura de
La Araucana (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2010)
Revista Nomadías n°11 (
Universidad de Chile , 2009)
Antología. Concurso de cuentos sobre VIH (SEREMI de Salud, 2004)
Antología del Primer Concurso de Cuentos Escuela de Medicina (
Austral University of Chile , 2003)
Antología del Décimo Concurso Nacional de Cuentos Fernando Santiván (Corporación Cultural Municipal de Valdivia, 2003)
Antología poética de mujeres latinoamericanas Voces de luna (Editions Alondras,
Canada , 2001)
Awards and nominations
References