Juana Dib

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Juana Dib (Salta City, August 2, 1924 - Salta City, August 29, 2015) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher.{{cite news|title= Falleció la poetisa Juana Dib, 'seré mandrágora desahogando mi llanto' |trans-title=Poet Juana Dib passed away, 'I will be a mandrake venting my tears|newspaper= El Intransigente|location= Salta|access-date= 9 June 2024|url= http://www.elintransigente.com/salta/cultura/2015/8/31/fallecio-poetisa-juana-dib-sere-mandragora-desahogando-llanto-339305.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010939/http://www.elintransigente.com/salta/cultura/2015/8/31/fallecio-poetisa-juana-dib-sere-mandragora-desahogando-llanto-339305.html|archive-date= 2015-09-24|via=Internet Archive|language=es}}

Biography

The daughter of Syrian Greek Orthodox Christian parents from Tumin, in the Hama Governorate, she was the third of eleven siblings.{{cite news|url=http://www.eltribuno.info/juana-dib-a-veces-las-mujeres-escriben-mas-duro-que-los-hombres-n266027 |title= Juana Dib: ¿A veces las mujeres escriben más duro que los hombres?|trans-title=Juana Dib: Do women sometimes write harder than men?|newspaper=El Tribuno |location=Salta Province |date=30 March 2013 |language=es}}

Trained as a teacher, Dib taught Spanish and administrative writing. Many of her students were immigrants and children of immigrants, whom she taught to speak and write in the Spanish language. She was a member of the Caja de Previsión Social de la Provincia, the Centro Salteño de Investigaciones de la Cultura Árabe, and the Federación de Entidades Argentino Árabes filial Salta.{{cite web|url=http://www.portaldesalta.gov.ar/dib.htm |title= Juana Dib |publisher= Portal de Salta|location=Argentina|language=es}} Much of her work was translated by Zaki Konsol, Juan Yacer, and Michael Nooman, and published in Syrian and Lebanese newspapers and magazines. After her death, the Syrian-Lebanese Union of Salta described her as {{lang|es|"una excelsa poetisa, escritora y guía intelectual de la causa árabe"|italics=yes}} (an excellent poetess, writer and intellectual guide of the Arab cause).

Awards and honours

1993, {{lang|es|Premio del Concurso de Poesía para Autores Éditos de la Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Salta}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.pressreader.com/argentina/clarin/20150901/282982513730618 |title=La 'Tía Juana' fue una poeta de Salta con obras en árabe|trans-title='Aunt Juana' was a poet from Salta with works in Arabic |magazine=Clarín |first=Jesús |last=Rodríguez |date=1 September 2015}}
2010, {{lang|es|Premio del Concurso Provincial de Novela de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Salta}}{{cite news |first=Juan |last=Barthe |url=https://www.eltribuno.com/salta/nota/2015-8-30-19-57-0-hierro-dulce-el-ultimo-libro-de-juana-dib-las-letras-de-luto |title=Hierro dulce, el último libro de Juana Dib |trans-title=Sweet Iron, the latest book by Juana Dib |newspaper=El Tribuno |date=30 August 2015 }}

Selected works

{{cite book |ref=none |title=El milagro de una rosa |edition=1 |year=1982 |publisher= |isbn=}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Las Doradas |edition=1 |year=1989 |publisher=Edición del Autor |isbn=978-950-43-5057-6}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Las Dos Vertientes |edition=1 |year=1993 |publisher=Gráfiker |isbn=978-987-99003-9-0}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=La Mandragora |edition=1 |year=1993 |publisher=Ministerio de Educación de la Provincia de Salta |isbn=978-987-99601-0-3}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Las Invitadas |edition=1 |year=2000 |publisher=Del Robledal |isbn=978-987-9364-08-6}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=El Páramo que clama |edition=1 |year=2001 |publisher=Del Robledal |isbn=978-987-9364-15-4}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Viajeros del Orontes |edition=1 |year=2002 |publisher=Ministerio de Educación de la Provincia de Salta |isbn=978-987-98838-8-4}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Poblada de Voces |edition=1 |year=2008 |publisher=Víctor Manuel Hanne Editor |isbn=978-987-9140-82-6}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Elegía a Palestina |edition=1 |year=2009 |publisher=Víctor Manuel Hanne Editor |isbn=978-987-1578-13-9}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Flores naturales |edition=1 |year=2010 |publisher=Ministerio de Educación de la Provincia de Salta |isbn=978-987-1196-65-4}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Hierro Dulce |edition=1 |year=2014 |publisher=Víctor Manuel Hanne Editor |isbn=978-987-1933-61-7}}
{{cite book |ref=none |title=Destino - Argentina |edition=1 |year=2015 |publisher=Fondo Editorial Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Salta |isbn=978-987-1929-37-5}} (posthumous).

Juana Dib

Biography

Awards and honours

Selected works

See also

References

Further reading