Cristina Peri Rossi

Peri Rossi has lived in Barcelona since 1972, after a civic-military dictatorship was established in Uruguay and censored her works. She has translated into Spanish authors such as Clarice Lispector and Monique Wittig. She has worked for several newspapers and media agencies such as Diario 16, El Periódico and Agencia EFE. Peri Rossi won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2021, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

Cristina Peri Rossi studied at Instituto de Profesores Artigas. The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is poetry. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are poetry. Works named in the authority record are Evohé. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Medalla Delmira Agustini, Miguel de Cervantes Prize and Loewe Award.

She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, 12 November 1941, but was exiled in 1972 after a civic-military dictatorship was established. She moved to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. As of 2024 she lives in Barcelona, where she continues to write fiction and work as a journalist. She studied at the University of the Republic.

Cristina Peri Rossi is active as a journalist and political commentator in Barcelona. She is a radio journalist for the public Catalan station Catalunya Radio. She was fired from this position in October 2007 and accused the station of 'linguistic persecution', claiming she was fired for speaking Spanish instead of Catalan. She was later re-instated to her post after an outcry. She is well known for her defense of civil liberties and freedom of expression. She has long supported gay marriage and welcomed Spain's decision to recognize it. In an El Mundo article in March 2006, she spoke out against the rise of religious extremism in Europe, and specifically the violence that followed the 'Danish Cartoons Affair'. In the article she expresses her support to the 'Together Facing the New Totalitarianism' Manifesto, which was published in the left-leaning French weekly Charlie Hebdo in March 2006.

Viviendo (1963). "Living" Los museos abandonados (1968). "Abandoned Museums" Indicios pánicos (1970). Panic Signs, trans. Mercedes Rowinsky-Geurts and Angelo A. Borrás (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002). ISBN 9780889203938, OCLC 48670868 La tarde del dinosaurio (1976). Afternoon of the Dinosaur, trans. Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Chacón de Arjona (Svenson Publishers, 2014). ISBN 9780615955636, OCLC 922699405 La rebelión de los niños (1980). "Kids' Rebellion" El museo de los esfuerzos inútiles (1983). The Museum of Useless Efforts, trans. Tobias Hecht (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) Una pasión prohibida (1986). A Forbidden Passion, trans. Mary Jane Treacy (Cleis Press, 1993). ISBN 9780939416684, OCLC 928973419 Cosmoagonías (1988). "Cosmoagonies" La ciudad de Luzbel y otros relatos (1992). "Luzbel's City and Other Stories" Desastres íntimos (1997). Intimate Disasters, trans. Robert S. Rudder and Ignacio López-Calvo (Latin American Literary Review Press, 2014). ISBN 9781891270543, OCLC 893317150 Por fin solos (2004). "Alone At Last"

El libro de mis primos (1969). "My Cousin's Book" La nave de los locos (1984). The Ship of Fools, trans. Psiche Hughes (Readers International, 1999). ISBN 9780930523541, OCLC 46541921 Solitario de amor (1988). Solitaire of Love, trans. Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona (Duke University Press, 2000). ISBN 9780822325406, OCLC 254438360 La última noche de Dostoievski (1992). Dostoevsky's Last Night (Picador, 1996). ISBN 9780312143220, OCLC 35126155 El amor es una droga dura (1999). "Love is a Hard Drug"

Evohé (1971). Erotic Poems (bilingual text), trans. Diana P. Decker (Azul Editions, 1994). ISBN 9780963236357, OCLC 31602897 Descripción de un naufragio (1974). "Description of a Shipwreck" Diáspora (1976). "Diaspora" Lingüística general (1979). "General Linguistics" Europa después de la lluvia (1987). "Post-Rain Europe" Babel bárbara (1991) Otra vez Eros (1994). "Eros, Again" Aquella noche (1996). "That Night" Inmovilidad de los barcos (1997). "Ships's Stiffness" Poemas de amor y desamor (1998). "Poems of Love and Lovelessness" Las musas inquietantes (1999). "The Disturbing Muses" Estado de exilio (2003). State of Exile (bilingual text), trans. Marilyn Buck (City Lights Books, 2008) Estrategias del deseo (2004). "Strategies of Desire" Habitación de hotel (2007). "Hotel Room" La ronda de la vida (2023). "The Lap of Life"

Fantasías eróticas (1990). "Erotic Fantasies" Acerca de la escritura (1991). "On Writing"

Majorie Agosin, (ed) These are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women, White Pine Press, New York, 1998. (English translations of poetry by Cristina Peri Rossi, Gabriela Mistral, and Giannina Braschi). The Best of Review: Celebrating the Americas Society's 40th Anniversary, editors Tess O'Dwyer and Doris Sommer, Routledge, Francis & Taylor, London, 2005. (English translation excerpts of Latin American literary classics by Cristina Peri Rossi and her contemporaries Luisa Valenzuela, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Derek Walcott, and Giannina Braschi).