Fernando Báez (writer)
Fernando Báez (born San Félix, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan writer, poet, essayist and "El Director de la Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela".[1] He is known for his work on the destruction of Iraqi books and art caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Career
[edit]Báez has a degree in education and a doctorate in library science, and worked for several years at the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, where he studied Greek and Latin under José Manuel Briceño Guerrero.[2] He was declared a persona non-grata by the United States authorities, after the publication of his book on Iraq.[3][4]
Works
[edit]- Historia de la Antigua Biblioteca de Alejandría (2003)
- Historia Universal de la Destrucción de Libros (2004)[5]
- La Destrucción Cultural de Iraq (2004)
- A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq. Translated by Mac Adam, Alfred J. New York: Atlas & Company. 2008. ISBN 978-1-934633-01-4.[6][7]
- Las maravillas perdidas del mundo: Breve historia de las grandes catástrofes culturales de la civilización (in Spanish). Océano. 25 June 2013. ISBN 978-607-400-851-7.
- El saqueo cultural de América Latina: de la conquista a la globalización (in Spanish). Debate. 2009. ISBN 978-84-8306-835-9.
- Los primeros libros de la humanidad: El mundo antes de la imprenta y el libro electrónico (in Spanish). Océano. 1 July 2015. ISBN 978-607-735-491-8.
- Novels
- El traductor de Cambridge (in Spanish). Lengua de Trapo. 2005. ISBN 978-84-96080-46-1.
- Translations
- Los Fragmentos de Aristóteles (in Spanish). Universidad de los Andes, Ediciones del Vicerrectorado Académico. 2002.
- Poética de Aristóteles (in Spanish). Universidad de los Andes, Ediciones del Vicerrectorado Académico. 2002.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "El traductor de Cambridge, de Fernando Báez". 365 dias de libros (in Spanish). Charles III University of Madrid. 2 March 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Rattia, Rafael (4 July 2003). "Fernando Báez y Los fragmentos de Aristóteles". Analitica.com (in Spanish). Caracas, Venezuela. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Becerra, Mauricio (13 December 2010). "Fernando Báez, autor de la Historia de la Destrucción de Libros: "En Latinoamérica tenemos una visión de progreso decimonónica"". es:El Ciudadano (Chile) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ "Fernando Baez: "Sin destruir libros no se gana la guerra"". La Nación (in Spanish). 10 April 2005. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Báez, Fernando (2005). "Historia universal de la destrucción de los libros : De las tablillas sumerias a la guerra de Irak". Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ^ Baez, Fernando (2008). A Universal History of the Destruction of Books. New York: Atlas and Company. pp. 58–60. ISBN 978-1-934633-01-4.
- ^ Garrett, Jeffrey (October 2009). "Why Burn a Library? Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History . By Lucien X. Polastron. Translated from the French by, Jon E. Graham. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2007. Pp. xii+371. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐159477167‐5. Originally published as Livres en feu (Paris: Editions Denoël, 2004). Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction . By Rebecca Knuth. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xiv+233. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐275‐99007–9. A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq . By Fernando Báez. Translated from the Spanish by, Alfred MacAdam. New York: Atlas, 2008. Pp. xii+355. $25.00 (cloth). ISBN 1‐934633‐01‐4. Originally published as De las tablillas sumerias a la Guerra de Irak (Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 2004)". The Library Quarterly. 79 (4): 489–493. doi:10.1086/605386. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
