Ana Teresa Torres
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Ana Teresa Torres (born 6 July 1945) is a
Venezuelan Venezuelans (Spanish language, Spanish: ''venezolanos'') are the Citizenship, citizens identified with the country of Venezuela. This connection may be through citizenship, descent or cultural. For most Venezuelans, many or all of these connect ...
novelist, essayist and short story writer. Her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, is often concerned with Venezuelan history and politics, memory, gender, and psychoanalysis.


Life

Torres was born in
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, Venezuela, and is a trained psychoanalyst. She studied psychology at
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in Caracas from 1964 to 1968, and gained a postgraduate qualification from the Centro de Salud Mental del Este de Caracas from 1970 to 1973. She has taught courses on both psychology and creative writing. From 2006 to 2010, she coordinated the Semana de Nueva Narrativa Urbana (Week of New Urban Writing) with Héctor Torres, which led to the anthologies ''De la urba para el orbe'' (2006), ''Quince que cuentan'' (2008) and ''Tiempos de la ciudad'' (2010). On 16 January 2006, Torres took up seat F in the
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(Venezuelan Academy of the Language).


Bibliography

Novels * ''La escribana del viento.'' Caracas: Alfa, 2013. (Winner of the Premio de la crítica de la novela, 2013). * ''La fascinación de la víctima.'' Caracas: Alfa, 2008. * ''Nocturama''. Caracas: Alfa, 2006. * ''Dos novelas: El exilio del tiempo y Me abrazo tan largamente'', Mérida: El otro, el mismo, 2005. * ''El corazón del otro'', Caracas: Alfadil 2005 * ''Cuentos completos'', Mérida: El otro el mismo, 2002 * ''La favorita del Señor'', Caracas: Editorial Blanca Pantin / La nave va, 2001 * ''Los últimos espectadores del acorazado Potemkin'', Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores, 1999. * ''Malena de cinco mundos'', Literal Books, 1997 * ''Vagas desapariciones''. Caracas: Grijalbo, 1995 * ''Doña Inés contra el olvido.'' Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores, 1992. (Winner of the Bienal de Literatura Mariano Picón Salas Prize, 1991). **''Doña Inés vs Oblivion.'' Translation by
Gregory Rabassa Gregory Rabassa (March 9, 1922 – June 13, 2016) was an American literature, literary translation, translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College. Life and career Rabassa w ...
. New York: Grove Press, 2000. * ''El exilio del tiempo'', Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores, 1990 Non fiction * ''Diario en Ruinas (1998-2017).'' Caracas: Alfa, 2018. * ''El oficio por dentro'', Caracas: Alfa, 2012. * ''Lya Imber de Coronil'', Caracas: El Nacional, 2010. * ''La herencia de la tribu'', Caracas: Alfa, 2009. * ''Historias del continente oscuro: Ensayos sobre la condición femenina'', Caracas: Alfa 2007. * ''El alma se hace de palabras'', Caracas: Editorial Blanca Pantin, 2003. * ''A beneficio de inventario'', Caracas: Memorias de Altagracia, 2000. * ''Territorios eróticos,'' Caracas: Editorial Psicoanalítica, 1998. * ''El amor como síntoma'', Caracas: Editorial Psicoanalítica, 1993. * ''Elegir la neurosis'', Caracas: Editorial Psicoanalítica, 1992. In anthologies * 'Casas abandonadas' (extract from ''El exilio del tiempo'') in ''Alrededores de la casa'' edited by
Yolanda Pantin Yolanda Pantin (born 1954) is a Venezuelan author who has mainly written poetry, although she has also worked in children's literature. Early life and education Born in Caracas, the eldest of eleven siblings, she spent her childhood in Turmero, A ...
and Federico Pacanins. Caracas: Colección Econoinvest, 2000. * 'Retrato frente al mar' in ''Narradores de El Nacional (1946-1992)''. Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores, 1992; in ''Antología de cuentistas Hispanoamericanas'' edited by Gloria da Cunha-Giabbai and Anabella Acevedo-Leal. Washington, DC: Literal Books, 1996; in ''Cuentos que hicieron historia. Ganadores del concurso de cuentos del diario El Nacional 1946-2004.'' Caracas: Los Libros de El Nacional, 2005; in ''La vasta brevedad. Antología del cuento venezolano del siglo XX'' edited by Carlos Pacheco, Miguel Gomes and Antonio López Ortega. Caracas: Alfaguara, 2010: Vol. II. * 'El vestido santo' in ''Las mujeres toman la palabra. Antología de narradoras venezolanas'' edited by Luz Marina Rivas. Caracas: Monte Ávila Latinoamericana, 2004; in ''Contar es un placer. Selección de cuentos hispanoamericanos'' edited by Emmanuel Tornés. Havana: Casa editora Abril, 2007.


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External links

* Official website: Venezuelan writers Members of the Venezuelan Academy of Language 1945 births Living people {{Venezuela-writer-stub Latin American writers 21st-century Venezuelan novelists 20th-century Venezuelan novelists