Myriam Moscona
{{Short description|Mexican journalist, translator and poet (born 1955)}}
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Myriam Moscona (מרים מוסקונה) (born 1955 in Mexico City) is a Mexican journalist, translator and poet in the Ladino and Spanish languages who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family.{{cite web |url=http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents/writingseries.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-05-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527211038/http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents/writingseries.html |archivedate=2010-05-27 }} She teaches at Miami University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/events/trans_cult_bios.html|title=Department of English | CAS - Miami University}} She was the artist in-residence from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2000.
Awards
- 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1998 Aguascalientes National Poetry Award, for Las visitantes.
Selected works
=Poem=
Rectas son las curvas de Moebius/En torcedumbre y doloridos/Con esas cintas nos krearon
- LA CINTA DE MOEBIUS
Moebius' curves are straight/Within twisting and sorrow/We were created with these ribbons
- MOEBIUS RIBBON
=IMER=
- [http://www.imer.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=963 "Instructivo para descifrar un mal"], IMER
= Books =
- Último jardín El Tucán de Virginia, 1983
- Las visitantes (1989, Premio Nacional de Poesía de Aguascalientes)
- Las preguntas de Natalia Illustrator Fernando Medina, CIDCLI, 1991, {{ISBN|978-968-494-049-9}}; CIDCLI, 1997, {{ISBN|978-968-494-049-9}}
- El árbol de los nombres Secretaría de Cultura, Gobierno de Jalisco, 1992, {{ISBN|978-970-624-000-2}}
- De frente y de perfil: Semblanzas de poetas Ciudad de México, DDF, 1994
- Vísperas Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996, {{ISBN|978-968-16-5085-8}}
- Negro marfil Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2000; Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2006
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=FV7BVb8mKeMC&q=Myriam+Moscona El que nada], Ediciones Era, 2006, {{ISBN|978-968-411-671-9}}
- En la superficie azul, Costa Rica 2008.
- De par en par (2009)
- Tela de Sevoya (2012)
=Anthologies=
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=UJ-Qj-Sx4RoC&dq=Myriam+Moscona&pg=PA518 "Excerpt from Black Ivory"], The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, Editors Cecilia Vicuña, Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Oxford University Press US, 2009,{{ISBN|978-0-19-512454-5}}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9F782QbR44C&dq=Myriam+Moscona&pg=PA258 The River Is Wide/el Rio Es Ancho: Twenty Mexican Poets], Editor Marlon L. Fick, Translator Marlon L. Fick, UNM Press, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-8263-3438-1}}
Review
Ivory Black's edition was made by Sandra Lorenzano, rector of the UCSJ, with a foreword by the Chilean writer Soledad Bianchi. Se trata de un poema de largo aliento, una suma de fragmentos que construyen el conjunto" de versos que, en algunos tramos, se pueden leer de diversas maneras: de izquierda a derecha, de derecha a izquierda, de arriba hacia abajo y viceversa. It is a long-winded poem,a sum of fragments that make up the whole "of verses which, in some sections, can be read in different ways: from left to right, right to left, top to bottom and vice versa.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/12/13/index.php?section=cultura&article=a11n1cul|title = Myriam Moscona lamenta que no se instruya a los niños para apreciar la poesía - la Jornada}}
External links
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- [https://poets.org/poet/myriam-moscona poets.org page]
- [https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/moscona-myriam Jewish Women's Archive page]
References
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Category:Judaeo-Spanish-language writers
Category:Judaeo-Spanish-language poets
Category:Writers from Mexico City
Category:Mexican Sephardi Jews
Category:20th-century Sephardi Jews
Category:21st-century Sephardi Jews
Category:Mexican people of Bulgarian-Jewish descent
Category:Mexican women journalists