Guatemala
Ana Maria Rodas
Ana Maria
Rodas, (1937) Guatemala's first woman journalist, has published
four books of poems. Translations of her poetry have been published
in the U.S., England, Vienna, Rome and Munich. In 1990 Rodas received
first prize in poetry from the Certamen de Juegos Florales Mexico,
Centroamerica y el Caribe.
ANA MARIA RODAS (Guatemala) had her first book of poems published
in l973 Poemas de la Izquierda Erotica (Poems of the Erotic
Left, now titled Poems from the Erotic Front with selections
from other books and translated by Zoe Anglesey. ). It
was the first effort to look at the relationship between men and
women as well as women and society from a feminist point of view
in Guatemala, if not in Central America. Her second book, published
in l975, Cuatro Esquinas del Juego de una Muneca (Four
Corners of a Doll's Game) extended the themes from her first
book. Her third book El Fin de los Mitos y los Suenos (The
End of Myths and Dreams) received the Juegos Florales poetry
prize of Quezaltenango, which is a l00yearold prize and very
much respected in Central America. Her novelinprogress is titled
Mariana en la Tigrera
(Mariana in the Den of a Tigress).Ê
Rodas has been a working journalist in Guatemala since the l970's
except during periods of repression, one of which resulted in
the assassination or disappearance of forty-one of her colleagues.
Presently she works as the art critic, literary consultant and
music reviewer for the weekly magazine modeled after Newsweek,
La Cronica.
Rodas's poetry and translations by Anglesey have appeared in Athena,
Red Bass, Conditions, Crab Creek Review, The Maryland Review,
St. Marks Poetry Newsletter, and in the anthologies Woman
Who Has Sprouted WingsPoems by Contemporary Latin American
Women Poets, Edited by Mary Crow and in Ixok Amar Go Central
American Women's Poetry for Peace, edited by Zoe Anglesey.
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