Ivonne Coñuecar | |
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Born | 1980 Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile |
Occupation | Poet, novelist, journalist |
Language | Spanish |
Nationality | Chilean |
Ivonne Coñuecar (born September 26, 1980) is a Mapuche writer, poet and journalist from Coyhaique, Chile.
Her first novel, Coyhaiqueer, won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019. [1] She currently lives in Argentina. [2]
Coñuecar was born in 1980. At 14 years old, she began to write for a literary supplement of Diario de Aysén, from 1994 to 1998. [3]
Coñuecar began to study law at the Austral University of Chile, but later changed her studies to communication studies and journalism in the same university. [2] [4] She graduated there with a master's degree in Contemporary Latin American literature, thanks to a scholarship granted by the National Council of Culture and the Arts. [2] Her thesis was about the literature of the Aysén Region. [5]
In 2008, Coñuecar published her first collection of poems, Catabática, first part of a trilogy of poetry that includes Adiabática (2009) and Anabática (2014). [3] [6]
In 2018, she released her novel Coyhaiqueer, a book about the queer community in the Coyhaique commune, [7] which received the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019. [3]
Ivonne Coñuecar | |
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Born | 1980 Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile |
Occupation | Poet, novelist, journalist |
Language | Spanish |
Nationality | Chilean |
Ivonne Coñuecar (born September 26, 1980) is a Mapuche writer, poet and journalist from Coyhaique, Chile.
Her first novel, Coyhaiqueer, won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019. [1] She currently lives in Argentina. [2]
Coñuecar was born in 1980. At 14 years old, she began to write for a literary supplement of Diario de Aysén, from 1994 to 1998. [3]
Coñuecar began to study law at the Austral University of Chile, but later changed her studies to communication studies and journalism in the same university. [2] [4] She graduated there with a master's degree in Contemporary Latin American literature, thanks to a scholarship granted by the National Council of Culture and the Arts. [2] Her thesis was about the literature of the Aysén Region. [5]
In 2008, Coñuecar published her first collection of poems, Catabática, first part of a trilogy of poetry that includes Adiabática (2009) and Anabática (2014). [3] [6]
In 2018, she released her novel Coyhaiqueer, a book about the queer community in the Coyhaique commune, [7] which received the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019. [3]