Susy Delgado
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Nationality | Paraguayan |
Susy Delgado (born 20 December 1949) is a Paraguayan poet and writer in Spanish and Guarani.
Life
Delgado was born in San Lorenzo in Paraguay in 1949. After obtaining a degree in Sociology in Madrid, Delgado worked as a journalist. She won international recognition in 1985 as a finalist for a Spanish poetry competition in Madrid.[1] In 2017, she won the national literature prize of Paraguay, Premio Nacional de Literatura, for her poem Ybytu yma.[2]
Her Spanish poetry includes: Some lost tremor (1986), The Court of the Elves. The latter took the Curupayty Radio Award in 1991 and the Municipal Board Award in 1992. In 2001 she had her first prose book published.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Susy Delgado". anselm.edu. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "Susy Delgado gana Premio Nacional de Literatura". La Nación (in European Spanish). Retrieved 6 January 2018.
Categories:
- 1949 births
- Living people
- People from San Lorenzo, Paraguay
- Paraguayan women poets
- Women journalists
- 20th-century Paraguayan poets
- 21st-century Paraguayan poets
- Paraguayan journalists
- Spanish-language poets
- Guarani-language writers
- 20th-century Paraguayan women writers
- 21st-century Paraguayan women writers
- Paraguayan people stubs
- South American poet stubs