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'''Gabriela Etcheverry''' (19?? - ) is a writer and Chilean-Canadian literary critic. |
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⚫ | She received her PhD in literature at [[Laval University]], Quebec. She has two MA degrees (Comparative Literature and Spanish) from Carleton University, Ottawa.{{fact}} She taught courses in language, literature, culture and civilization at Carleton University and at other agencies in Ottawa, Canada, and currently works in translation and interpretation. She has published novels, short stories, poems, essays, reviews and reports. |
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As a literary critic, cultural promoter and co-director of the Red Cultural Hispánica (Hispanic Cultural Network) she has organized conferences on Hispano-Canadian authors (Jorge Etcheverry, 2007; Nela Rio, 2008) and has co-organized the launch of books by Juan Carlos García, Eduardo Berger, Pablo Urbanyi, Lady Rojas, Francisco Ucán-Marin/Victor Hernandez Castillo, Claudio Durán as well as the book Latinocanadá: A Critical Study of Ten Latin American Writers of Canada, the most important anthology in English about poets and Hispano-Canadian prose writers. She read part of her review of its author Hugh Hazelton and his work during its launch at UNAM Hull on November 29th, 2007. She participated in coordinating the visit to Ottawa from New York of Julia Ahumada Grob’s He(R)evolution show and the presentation of the documentary film by Leuten Rojas Pa'ayudarle a mi mama [To help my mom]. She has been invited to recitals in the Cultural Celebration of the Spanish Language (CCIE) series (Toronto, 2006 & 2007) and as a special guest at the following literary groups: El Dorado (Ottawa, 2006), La Tertulia (Quebec, 2007), the Parque Forestal Book Fair (Santiago, Chile, 2008), and at the headquarters of the Chilean Society of Writers (SECH, Santiago, Chile, February 2008). |
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As a literary critic, cultural promoter and co-director of the Red Cultural Hispánica (Hispanic Cultural Network) she has organized conferences on Hispano-Canadian authors (Jorge Etcheverry, 2007; Nela Rio, 2008) |
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As a speaker, producer of plays, she eloquently expresses her interest in the sociocultural condition of Latin American immigrants in Canada and specifically in the condition of immigrant women. She produced small ad hoc dramatic pieces that were performed by members of the Association of Chilean Women in Ottawa (1987) and subsequently presented in Montreal (2002). She also gave a dramatic reading at the Great Canadian Theatre Company on the torture of Chilean women under the military dictatorship (Ottawa, 1983). She was invited to give talks on the Chilean military dictatorship in various community centers, Ottawa high schools (1984-1986) and on Parliament Hill (1987). She was the keynote speaker at a conference on immigrant women (1977) and another on the subject of Latin American women transitioning into Canadian life in 1982 (Carleton University). She was invited speaker at a forum chaired by Marion Dewar, former Mayor of Ottawa, about immigration policy in Canada (1980). Under the educational program Passages to Canada, sponsored by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, she responds to invitations to visit schools and share her experiences as emigrant and the poems, stories, letters and fragments from her "Crónicas del exilio (Chronicles of exile)” with students. |
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==Works== |
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==Creative works== |
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*2012. ''Latitudes''. Ottawa. Qantati eBooks. |
*2012. ''Latitudes''. Ottawa. Qantati eBooks. |
Revision as of 14:06, 1 May 2016
Gabriela Etcheverry (19?? - ) is a writer and Chilean-Canadian literary critic.
Biography
She received her PhD in literature at Laval University, Quebec. She has two MA degrees (Comparative Literature and Spanish) from Carleton University, Ottawa.[citation needed] She taught courses in language, literature, culture and civilization at Carleton University and at other agencies in Ottawa, Canada, and currently works in translation and interpretation. She has published novels, short stories, poems, essays, reviews and reports. As a literary critic, cultural promoter and co-director of the Red Cultural Hispánica (Hispanic Cultural Network) she has organized conferences on Hispano-Canadian authors (Jorge Etcheverry, 2007; Nela Rio, 2008)
Etcheverry runs a literary magazine[1] and an occasionally a children’s multilingual publishing house.[2]
Works
Novels
- 2012. Latitudes. Ottawa. Qantati eBooks.
- 2008. De vuelta al pueblo/Coquimbo en tres tiempos (Back to town /Coquimbo in three times). Passages of the novella "El regreso (The Return)" and context. La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), January 1st.
- 2007.Latitudes [Latitudes] La Serena, Chile: Split Quotation.
Short stories
- 2013. L'arbre à pain et autres contes. Translated by Yvonne Klintborn. Toronto: Antares.
- 2013. The Breadfruit Tree and other stories. Toronto: Antares.
- Review by Kevin Clinton, Festival of Images and Words, Dec. 9, 2013. Online.
- 2011. El árbol del pan y otros cuentos. Ottawa: Split Quotation.
- 2010 Añañuca. Illustrated by Jillian Lim. Ottawa: Qantati Junior, 2010. children’s book.
- Review by Arturo Mendez Roca for EcoLatino (October 2010).
- Stories from the collection "El árbol del pan (Breadfruit)":
- 2008 Josefina, Mundo en Español (World in Spanish), January.
- 2007 Homero (Homer) Mundo en Español (World in Spanish), December.
- 2007 El fotógrafo (Photographer) Mundo en Español (World in Spanish), November.
- 2005 Oración por todos (Prayer for all)Alter Vox [Ottawa], November.
- 2005 La Milonga Coquimbo Times, February.
- 2005 Amador, La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), July 29th.
- 2005 Ema. La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), April 27th.
- Stories from the collection "Tú y yo” (You and I):
- 2008 "Tres mini (o micro) cuentos (Three mini (or micro) stories)", La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation),January:
- Pareja (Couple)
- Enamorada (In Love)
- Pesadilla (Nightmare).
- 2008 "Tres mini (o micro) cuentos (Three mini (or micro) stories)", La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation),January:
Poetry
- 2006 "Tres poemas urbanos (Three urban poems)", La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), June 15th:
- Terry Fox
- Primavera en Ottawa (Spring in Ottawa)
- Toronto.
- 2005 Se te quedó en el tintero (It was like in the pipeline) La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), Nov. 11th.
- 2005 El canto del cardinal (The song of the cardinal) La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), May 20th.
- 2005 La Muda (The mute) La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), Nov. 21st.
- 2002 Once de septiembre del 2001 (September 11th, 2001). Alter Vox, January.
- 1989 Espantapájaros (Scarecrow). Reembou 1.
Literary criticism
- 2011. (Ed.) Nela Rio. Escritura en foco: la mirada oblicua.[Writing in focus. Oblique look.] Ottawa: Qantati, 2011. E-book.
- 2008. Claudio Duran, Childhood and Exile in Claudio Durán, La infancia y los exilios/ Childhood and Exile, of Claudio Durán (Ottawa: Split Quotation).
- 2007 " Influencia de la cultura de los años sesenta en la temática de la obra Vida (1968–82), de Gonzalo Millán [Influence of the culture of the sixties in the issue of work life (1968-1982), of Gonzalo Millán]. Boreal [Ottawa] (2007). Boreal Symposium (Ottawa, 2007)
- 2006 Preface to Tres lotos en un mar de fuego [Three lotuses in a sea of fire], Camila Reimers (Ottawa: Mapalé Arts and Letters).
- 2005 Review of MicroQuijotes. Selection and prolog of Juan Armando Epple (Barcelona: Thule Ediciones, 2005). La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), Aug. 4th.
- 2005 Voces y silencio (Voices and silence). Note to the poem collection Una tierra extraña (A strange land) by Julio Torres-Recinos (Ottawa: Split Quotation, 2004). La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), April 6th.
- 2003 Overview of the thematic evolution in the feminine Spanish-Canadian literature. Boreal Symposium (Ottawa).
- 2002 La cordura de las locas mujeres (The sanity of mad women) of Gabriela Mistral" Symposium in homage to Gabriela Mistral sponsored by the Autonomous University of Mexico in Hull, Canada.
- 2001 Review of Crisol del tiempo y Nosotros (Melting pot of time and Us), books of poems by Julio Torres. Alter Vox (summer).
- 1995 Chilean Poetry Is Alive and Well in Canada: Women’s Voices. Arc: Canada's National Poetry Magazine 35 (autumn). Article.
- 1994 Preface to El 39° fragmento del clan (The 39th fragment clan) of Nieves Fuenzalida (Ottawa: DPAPEL Editions).
Other
- 2007 Adiós Mariquita Linda o la metamorfosis de Pedro Lemebel (Good bye pretty ladybug or Peter’s Lemebel metamorphosis. La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation). June 26th.
- 2007 Children of War y la masacre en el Instituto Politécnico de Virginia (Children of War and the slaughter at Virginia Polytechnic Institute). La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), June 22th.
- 2006 Día de los refugiados, día de vergüenza para la humanidad (Refugee Day, a day of shame for humanity) La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), June 20.
- 2006. La píldora del día después (Morning-after pill). La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), April 2nd.
- 2006 Irak tres años después (Iraq three years later). La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), March 20th.
- 2005 Las rotas chilenas (Broken Chilean). La Cita Trunca (Split Quotation), July 13th.