Lucina Kathmann | |
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Born | Albany, New York |
Occupation | Writer and activist |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University and Northwestern University |
Notable work | Payshapes and the Bear |
Spouse | Charles Kuschinski (1942-1996) |
Lucina Kathmann (1942-present) is an American writer and activist. She has published books, essays, and short stories internationally in multiple languages. She has been an active member of PEN International since 1986[1] and helped found the organization's Women Writers Committee in 1991. Lucina represents PEN International at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Kathmann was born to a pair of physicians. Kathmann earned her BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 1964 and an MA from Northwestern University in 1967.
She taught philosophy at Barat College for a few years.[2] Kathmann's writing is mainly about women, their struggles and accomplishments, their suppression and their extraordinary contributions to freedom and to literature. In 1989, her novel, The Adventures of the Magnificent Kong and Brawny Mouse was published by Liberty Press and later came out on special tapes for the blind.[3]
Moving forward, she wrote a lot of her own pieces in English and Spanish. Throughout the nineties, Kathmann published essays, poetry, translations and children's stories in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and other venues."[4] A bilingual anthology of her children’s stories, Payshapes and the Bear, was published in 1999, which was recognized as a finalist in the International Book Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.[5]