Damaris Calderón
Cuban poet
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Damaris Calderón Campos (born 1967) is a Cuban poet based in Chile. She has won several awards for her poetry work, including the 1998 Premio Revista de Libros and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and she is a professor at Finis Terrae University.
- University of Havana
- Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (master deegee)
Damaris Calderón | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 58–59) Havana, Cuba |
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| Occupation | Poet |
| Employer | Finis Terrae University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2011) |
Biography
Damaris Calderón Campos was born in 1967 in Havana, and she graduated from the University of Havana.[1] She started writing several poetry collections - Con el terror del quilibrista (1988), Duras aguas del trópico (1992), Duro de roer (1992), and Guijarros (1994),[1] some on which were, according to Carmen Alemany Bay, part of a trend "questioning of the idea of a revolutionary nation" like Cuba amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[2]
She then moved to Chile in 1995, and she was educated at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, where she got her master's degree in classical languages and culture.[1] She then resumed her career in poetry collections, publishing Babosas: dejando mi propio rastro in 1998 and Se adivina un país in 1999.[1] In 1999, she won the Premio Revista de Libros for her poetry collection Sílabas. Ecce Homo.[3] Five of her poems were part of Mark Weiss' 2009 book The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.[4] In 2011, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.[1] In 2014, she won the Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura Award for Best Published Literary Work in Poetry for her collection Las pulsaciones de la ataque.[5]
She began teaching at the Finis Terrae University,[1] where she later became professor.[6] Together with María Elena Hernandez Caballero, she founded and became director of publishing house Las Dos Fridas.[7] Additionally, she once had an anthology of modern Chilean poetry under her editorship, Cercados por las aguas.[1]