Gloria Gervitz (29 March 1943 – 19 April 2022) was a Mexican poet and translator of Ukrainian Jewish descent.
Biography Gervitz was born in Mexico City on 29 March 1943. Her paternal family arrived to Mexico in 1929, when her father was 9 years old.Gloria Gervitz y 'Migraciones': el poema de una vida. Milenio She studied at the Universidad Iberoamericana.Gervitz, Gloria Gervitz resided in the United States.
Career Gervitz studied Art History at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has translated works by Kenneth Rexroth, Susan Howe, Lorine Niedecker, Rita Dove, and Samuel Beckett into Spanish.“Migraciones”, selección de poemas de Gloria Gervitz. Enlace Judío
Between August and September 1976, when she was 33 years old, she began writing an organic poem, Migraciones,Migrationer. Translation and epilogue by Ulf Eriksson and Magnus William-Olsson, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2009. which was first published in 1979 and is still in process.Poetas do Mundo - México - Glória Gervitz (1943) . Um Buraco na Sombra. Since then, new additions to the poem have appeared in expanded and revised editions. Migraciones is the main work of the poet and it has been compared with other long poems such as Los Cantos by Ezra Pound, Cántico by Jorge Guillén, the Vertical Poetry by Roberto Juarroz or the work by Saint-John Perse. Fragments of the poem have been translated into more than 18 languages. The poem, to date, consists of seven parts and more than 120 written pages;Nobelprisomtalade Gloria Gervitz berättar om sitt livsverk. Göteborgs-Posten although most of the text is in Spanish, Migraciones contains phrases and words in Yiddish."Escribir es un acto de fe". SwissInfo
Awards In 2011, she received the PEN Mexico Prize for Literary Excellence. In 2019, Gervitz received the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award, which is awarded by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile.Gloria Gervitz gana el Neruda: "Este es mi primer premio". La TerceraGloria Gervitz gana Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda 2019. El Universal In 2022, she received a posthumous PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award for Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020 (NYRB Poets, 2021).
Works 1979 - Shajarit 1987 - Yizkor 1986 - Fragmento de ventana 1991 - Migraciones (Shajarit and Yizkor, plus the third part, entitled Leteo) 1993 - Migraciones (including the fourth part, Pythia) 1996 - Migraciones (including the fifth part, Equinoccio) 2000 - Migraciones (including the sixth part, Treno) 2003 - Migraciones (including the seventh part, Septiembre).El cuerpo de la escritura. Una mirada a la obra de Gloria Gervitz 2021 - Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020
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