Ida Vitale
Ida Vitale in 2015.
Ida Vitale in 2015.
Born (1923-11-02) 2 November 1923 (age 100)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupationliterary critic, author, translator
LanguageSpanish
NationalityUruguayan
Notable awardsMiguel de Cervantes Prize
Alfonso Reyes Prize
Delmira Agustini Medal
SpouseEnrique Fierro
Ángel Rama
ChildrenAmparo, Claudio

Ida Vitale (born 2 November 1923) is a Uruguayan poet, translator, essayist, lecturer and literary critic.

Life

Vitale at the annual reading of Don Quixote in Madrid

She played an important role in the Uruguayan art movement known as the 'Generation of 45': Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama (who also became her second husband), Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Líber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others.[1]

Vitale fled to Mexico City in 1973 for political asylum after a military junta took power in Uruguay. She resided in Austin, Texas[2][3] until 2016, when she returned to Montevideo, where she currently resides.[4] Vitale is the last surviving member of the Generation of 45. She is the recipient of multiple literary prizes and honors for the literary texts she has published. In 2019 she was awarded a Cervantes prize for her lifetime achievement.[5]

Vitale turned 100 in November 2023.[6]


Prizes and honors

Partial bibliography

External resources

Ida Vitale recorded for the Archive of Literature of the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on September 12, 1986. Ms. Vitale reads the following works from her anthology, Fieles: "Palabra dada", "Cada uno en su noche", "Oidor andante", "Jardín de sílice", "Hora nona", "Se noi siamo figure di specchio", and "Sueños de la constancia".

See also

References

  1. ^ Generación del 45: severa en la crítica y brillante en la creación. Archived 2012-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Vitale, I. "Reason Enough", Host Publications 2007
  3. ^ a b Albarracín, Jesús. Ida Vitale gana el Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca, El País (Granada), 13 October 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2017
  4. ^ Ida Vitale: "La poesía es para todos, no puede ser especializada o recóndita"
  5. ^ "Ida Vitale, premio Cervantes 2018". El País (in Spanish). 15 November 2018. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Ida Vitale cumple 100 años: las claves de la poeta uruguaya". El Español (in Spanish). 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  7. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
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