Isabel Sabogal
Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (born October 14, 1958, in Lima) is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer.
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Isabel Sabogal

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- Name
- Isabel Sabogal
- Birth Name
- Isabel María Sabogal
- Born
- October 14, 1958
- Birthplace
- Lima, Peru,
- Occupation
- Poet, novelist, translator and astrologer
- Nationality
- Peru · Poland
- Fields
- poetry
- Education
- Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
- Honours
- Bene Merito
- Languages
- Spanish
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Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (born October 14, 1958, in Lima) is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer.
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Key facts
• Name — Isabel Sabogal • Birth Name — Isabel María Sabogal • Born — October 14, 1958 • Birthplace — Lima, Peru, • Occupation — Poet, novelist, translator and astrologer • Notable Works — Un Universo dividido
Biography
Biography
Her parents were José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (Peruvian, son of the painter José Sabogal) and Józefa Maria Dunin-Borkowska (Polish). Sabogal grew up in Lima, Göttingen and Warsaw and studied Hispanic literature and Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Translation from Polish into Spanish
Translation from Polish into Spanish
• Polonia: la revolución de Solidarność (Poland: The Solidarność revolution), Lima, Apuntes, Centro de Documentación e Investigación, 1982. It includes Sabogal's translations of the Polish underground writings. • Sabogal was the editor, translator and wrote the introduction to Poesía escogida (Selected Poetry) of the Polish poet and Nobel Laureate, Czesław Miłosz. A bilingual edition in Polish and Spanish, sponsored by the Polish Embassy in Lima and the American-Peruvian Cultural Institute. Lima, Ediciones del Hipocampo, 2012.
Blog
Blog
• Since 2007 she has been blogging on the Isabel Sabogal platform which includes Sabogal's own work as well as writings on literature, astrology and other subjects.
Cultural management
Cultural management
• Co-organizer of the III Peruvian Women Writers' Meeting, held in September 2003 in Cusco. • Co-organizer of the Seminar La mujer y la Literatura (Woman and Literature), held in March 2004 in Cusco. • Co-organizer of the round table on Czeslaw Milosz, held in November 2011 in Lima, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth.
Distinctions
Distinctions
• In July 2012 she was awarded the "Bene Merito" Honorary Distinction by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Her recorded language was Spanish. She was the child of José Sabogal.
Identity
Identity
Isabel Sabogal is recorded as writer, translator, poet, astrologer and novelist.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1958
Isabel Sabogal was born in 1958 at Lima.
Books published
Books published
• Requiebros vanos. Poetry book. Lima, Ignacio Prado Pastor Editor, 1988; • Entre el Cielo y el Infierno, un Universo dividido (Between Heaven and Hell, a divided Universe). Fantasy novel. Lima, Ignacio Prado Pastor Editor, 1989 and reprinted in 1993. Published a second time as Un Universo dividido (A divided Universe), Lima, Ediciones Altazor, 2016.. • Todo está hecho a la medida de ti misma. Poetry book. Lima, Grafos & Maquinaciones, 2022.
Work published in anthologies
Work published in anthologies
• Poems in the anthology Poesía: Perú s. XXI (Poetry: Peru XXI century), (compilation by Dalmacia Ruiz Rosas and Willy Gómez Migliaro), Lima, Fundación Yacana, 2007. • Ricardo Silva Santisteban (anthologist): Antología general de la traducción en el Perú (General anthology of translation in Peru), volume VII. Lima, Universidad Ricardo Palma – Editorial Universitaria, 2016.. • Short story La vampira (The vampire) in the anthology of the fantastic stories Trece veces Sarah. Un proyecto de José Donayre (Thirteen times Sarah. A project by José Donayre), Lima, Ediciones Altazor, 2017,. • Poems in the anthology Un otoño azul (A blue autumn), (compilation by Gloria Mendoza Borda). Arequipa, Cuervo Editores – Alianza Francesa de Arequipa, 2018. • Poems in the anthology Mujeres en fuego (Ladies in fire), Cusco, Editorial Fuego, 2024. Compilation by Lenyan Veka.
Work published within other books
Work published within other books
• El dibujo del mundo (The drawing of the world), text published in the Pedro José Granado's novel Un chin de amor, Lima, Editorial San Marcos, 2005.
Work published in the press
Work published in the press
• Dni poczęcia (The days of conception), Warsaw, Fantastyka magazine, 1990, N° 2, (in Polish). • In Spanish language: Los días del origen, Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 19, October 2020. Author's translation. • A fragment of an unpublished novel Niewiarygodna Bajka (The unbelievable story), Kraków, Lektura magazine, Nº 11/12, 1992, (in Polish). • Historia o pewnej qeqe (Story of a "qeqe"), Andean oral tradition compiled and translated by Sabogal to Polish. Salwator i świat magazine, Kraków, 1992, N° 1, (in Polish). • Poetry, La hoja latinoamericana magazine, Uppsala, 1992 – 1993; • Poetry, El Sol newspaper, Cusco, 2002 – 2004; • Cuatro poetas cusqueños (Four poets of Cusco), Lima's cultural magazine Voces, Lima, N° 39, December 2009. • Notes about Polish history, literature and culture in the Peruvian-Polish press, 2006–2016. • La hora "U" (The hour "U"), Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 17, June 2020. • Nuestra guerra sin fin (Our endless war), Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 23, January 2022. • Nuestro pueblo errante (Our wandering people), Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 26, May 2022.
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Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Interview with Isabel Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (in Spanish);
- 2.Requiebros vanos in Google books;
- 3.Entre el Cielo y el Infierno, un Universo dividido;
- 4.Un Universo dividido in the Peruvian books website (in Spanish)
- 5.Yacana y los nuevos mitos por Miguel Ildefonso (in Spanish).
- 6.Silvana Maria Mamani: La poesía como contacto andino-caribeño (in Spanish).
- 7.Polish Literary Bibliography
- 8.Niewiarygodna Bajka
- 9.Voces magazine
- 10.Polonian Digital Library
- 11.Preguntas incómodas sobre el modelo polaco (in Spanish).
- 12.Poesía escogida;
- 13.Piotr M. Małachowski: Co Czesław Miłosz robi w stolicy Peru? Łączy ludzi (in Polish).
- 14.Award ceremony.
- 15.Rossella Di Paolo: Entre el Cielo y el Infierno
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Rossella di Paolo: Entre el Cielo y el Infierno, Lima, alternative news magazine La tortuga, Nº 31, 1989. Rossella Di Paolo: Entre el Cielo y el Infierno
- Carina Moreno: Poesía escogida de Czeslaw Milosz, Lima's cultural magazine Voces, Lima, Nº 49, October 2012.
- Ricardo Silva Santisteban: Breve historia de la traducción en el Perú, Lima, Instituto Bibliográfico del Perú, 2013. .
- Helena Usandizaga: Todo está hecho a la medida de ti misma de Isabel Sabogal. Lima, Lucerna magazine, N° 15, March 2024.
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