Wafi Salih (born 5 June 1965 in Trujillo) is a Venezuelan-born writer of Lebanese descent. Writer of: poetry, short stories, essays, dramaturgy and film scripts. She is recognized as “the master of short poetry in Venezuela” for her extensive exploration of haiku poetry, a literary genre of Japanese origin. Her books has been translated into English, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.[1][2][3]
Biography edit
Magister in Latin American Literature, graduated from the “Universidad de los Andes”. She has a doctoral project in History and twenty books published in several genres. She was founder of “José Antonio Ramos Sucre” a literary workshop for seven consecutive years, which contributed to the training of Venezuelan artists and researchers.[4]
Her thesis about female gender, is an innovative proposal about feminism. A profuse reflection that opens a question about the modes of cultural production and its effects on the social being. This research was published in Monte Ávila Editores in 2007 under the name: “The images of the absent”.[5]
Bibliography edit
Poetry edit
- Adagio (Adage) (1987) [6]
- Los cantos de la noche. (Songs of the night) (1990):[7]
- Las horas del aire (The hours of the air) (1991)
- Pájaro de raíces (Bird of roots) (2002) Winner of the poetry contest “Every day a book”, 2004[8][9]
- El Dios de las dunas (The God of the Dunes) (2005)
- Huésped del alba (Guest of dawn) (2006)
- Jugando con la poesía (Playing with poetry) (2006)
- Caligrafía del aire (Air Calligraphy) (2007) [10]
- Cielos descalzos (Barefoot Skies) (2009) [11]
- Vigilia de huesos (Vigil of bones) (2010)
- Con el índice de una lágrima (the index finger of a tear )
- Honor al fuego (Honor to the fire) (2018)
- Consonantes de agua (Water Consonants) (2018) [12]
- Sojam (Sojam) (2018) [13]
- Cielo avaro (Greedy heaven) (2018) [14]
- Serena en la plenitud (Serene in the fullness) (2020) Anthology.[15]
Essays and Narrative edit
- Las imágenes de la ausente. (The images of the absent) (2012) Essay.
- Más allá de lo que somos. (Beyond who we are) (2018) Essay.
- Hombre moreno viene en camino. (Black man is on his way): Theatrical monologues.
- Discípula de Jung. (Disciple of Jung) (2016): Story.[16]
References edit
- ^ "Wafi Salih: la sagrada nostalgia de dos mundos, por José Pulido". Letralia, Tierra de Letras (in Spanish). 2020-03-19. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ^ "Wafi Salih". www.revistasinestesia.com (in Spanish). 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ^ "haiku-vi". 9 May 2021.
- ^ "wafi-salih-un-padre-que-respira-entre-los-cedros".
- ^ "Wafi Salih: Poesía actual de Venezuela". 8 January 2020.
- ^ Salih, Wafi (1987). Adagio (in Spanish). Barquisimeto, Venezuela: Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador.
- ^ "wafi-salih-la-poeta-oficiante-del-haiku-i-por-ramon-rivasaez". 28 September 2020.
- ^ "3 poemas de Wafi Salih #PoesíaVenezolana". Poémame - Revista abierta de poesía (in Spanish). 2020-02-26. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ^ Salih, Wafi (2002). Pájaro de Raices (in Spanish). Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Mérida, Venezuela: Ediciones Luna nueva. ISBN 979-8478919917.
- ^ Salih, Wafi (2007). Caligrafía del aire. Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Alfalfa. ISBN 978-8498217780.
- ^ Salih, Wafi (2009). Cielos descalzos. ISBN 978-9801404941.
- ^ Consonantes de Agua (in Spanish). Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Barralibros. 2018. ASIN B08235LFNC.
- ^ Salih, Wafi (2018). Sojam (in Spanish). Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Barralibros. ASIN B08235LFNC.
- ^ "La poesía generosa de Wafi Salih". La Web de la Salud (in Spanish). 2021-01-30. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ^ Mendía, Gladys (2020-04-20). "Wafi Salih: Serena en la Plenitud". Revista de Literatura y Arte (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ^ Andrea Paola Hernández (2017-01-22). "La discípula del Jung vivo | Sobre el libro "Discípula de Jung" de Wafi Salih (Negro Sobre Blanco, 2016) + 4 poemas, por José Miguel Navas". Digo.palabra.txt (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-23.