Renée Ferrer
Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born Renée Ferrer Alfaro, 19 May 1944) is a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist. She is Secretary General of the Board of Governors of the twenty-member Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española. Her novel Los nudos del silencio (The knots of silence) has been translated into French, Italian, and English.
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Renée Ferrer
- Birth Name
- Renée Ferrer Alfaro
- Birthplace
- Asunción
- Born
- 19 May 1944
- Education
- Universidad Nacional de Asunción
- Awards
- *Paraguay National Prize for Literature (2010)
- Nationality
- Paraguay
- Occupation
- poet · writer · novelist
- Fields
- poetry
- Languages
- Spanish
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Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born Renée Ferrer Alfaro, 19 May 1944) is a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist. She is Secretary General of the Board of Governors of the twenty-member Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española. Her novel Los nudos del silencio (The knots of silence) has been translated into French, Italian, and English.
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Biography
Biography
On 16 December 2011, Ferrer was awarded Paraguay's National Prize for Literature by President Fernando Lugo. She is married with four children. • From: Sobreviviente • El eco de los pájaros — The echo of the birds • se ha vuelto ceniciento. — has turned the colour of ash. • De los árboles cuelga la amargura del duelo; — From the trees hangs the bitterness of the duel; • y en la trémula línea del silencio, — and in the flickering line of the silence, • calado de abandono, — fret with abandonment, • asumo — I assume • la soledad sin término. — unending solitude.
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Key facts
• Birth Name — Renée Ferrer Alfaro • Birthplace — Asunción • Born — 19 May 1944 • Citizenship — Paraguayan • Language — Spanish • Education — Universidad Nacional de Asunción • Awards — *Paraguay National Prize for Literature (2010) • UNESCO prize and Buenos Aires International Book Fair, for her work Desde el encendido corazón del monte (2014) • Little Cervantes Prize Recognisement (2024)
Works by Ferrer
Works by Ferrer
• Poetistas del Paraguay (Voces de hoy), Miguel Ángel Fernández, Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga, • Entre el ropero y el tren, Asuncion, Ediciones Alta Voz, 2004 • Itinerario del deseo (Itinerary of desire), translated by Betsy Partyka, Ediciones Alta Voz, 2002 • La colección de relojes, Asuncion, Arandura, 2001 • Renee Ferrer: poesia completa hasta el ano 2000, Asuncion, Paraguay: Arandura Editorial, 2000 • El ocaso del milenio, Asuncion, Paraguay: Ediciones y Arte S.R.L., 1999 • Vagos sin tierra, Asuncion, Expolibro, 1999 • Viaje a destiempo, Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción; Biblioteca de Estudios Paraguayos, 1989 • De la eternidad y otros delirios, Asuncion, Intercontinental Editora, 1997 • El resplandor y las sombras, Asuncion, Arandura Editorial, 1996 • Itinerario del deseo, Asuncion, Arandura Editorial, 1995 • Desde el encendido corazón del monte, Asuncion, Arandura Editorial, 1994 • Narrativa paraguaya actual: dos vertientes, Encuentros, no.4 (March 1994), pp. 1–16 • Por el ojo de la cerradura, Asuncion, Arandura Editorial, 1993 • El Acantilado y el mar, Asuncion, Arandura Editorial, 1992 • Los nudos del silencio, Asuncion, Arte Nuevo Editores, 1988 • Sobreviviente, Editiones Torremozas, Madrid, 1988, • Nocturnos, Asuncion, Editorial Arte Nuevo, 1987 • La mariposa azul y otros cuentos, Asuncion, Ediciones IDAP, Ediciones Mediterráneo, 1987 • La Seca y otros cuentos, Asuncion, El Lector, 1986 • Campo y cielo, Asuncion, Ediciones Mediterráneo, 1985 • Peregrino de la eternidad, Asuncion, Alcándara Editora, 1985 • Desde el Cañadón de la memoria, Hamburg, Imprenta Paul Molnar, 1984 • Cascarita de nuez, Asuncion, Talleres de Artes Gráficas Zamphirópolos, 1978 • Voces sin Réplica, Renée Ferrer Alfaro, Asuncion, 1967 • Hay surcos que no se llenan, Renée Ferrer Alfaro, Asuncion, Editorial El Arte, 1965 • La expansión colonizadora y la fundación de Concepción
Works about Ferrer
Works about Ferrer
• Las andanzas de un anhelo / Renee Ferrer, Angeles Molto Moreno, Asuncion, Criterio Ediciones, 2003 • Reneé Ferrer. Los muros del silencio, in Narradoras paraguayas, an anthology edited by José Vicente Peiró, Guido Rodríguez Alcalá, Asuncion, Expolibro, 1999 • Desmenuzando cuentos, de Renée Ferrer, by Delfina Acosta. Asuncion, Arandura Editorial, 2002. • La temática femenina en antología de cuentos de Renée Ferrer, by José Antonio Alonso Navarro. • Renée Ferrer. In Reflexiones, ensayos sobre escritoras hispanoamericanas, Ed: Dr. Priscilla Gac-Artigas.
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Renée Ferrer is recorded with the occupation novelist. Recorded as poet, writer and novelist.
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1944
Renée Ferrer was born on 19 May 1944.
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