Eleonora Requena (born 1968) is a Venezuelan poet.

Education and career

Requena studied literature at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

. She has published the poem compilations ''Sed'' (Eclepsidra, 1998), ''mandados'' (La Liebre Libre, 2000, ''Es de día'' (El Pez Soluble, 2004), ''La Noche y sus agüeros'' (El Pez Soluble, 2007) and ''Ética del aire'' (bid & co. editor, 2008). She has participated in the literary workshops of the Latin American Studies Center Rómulo Gallegos (Celarg)), where she published her collection ''Voces Nuevas'' (1995-1997), and her work has been published in several critical studies and anthologies both nationally and abroad.

Awards

With her poem ''mandados'', Requena was awarded with the V Latin American Biennial of Poetry José Rafael Pocaterra Award in 2000, while with ''La Noche y sus agüeros'' she received the Italy Poetry Award in 2007 in the contest «Mediterranean and Caribbean», promoted by the Italian Institute of Culture of Venezuela and the

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Center for Contemporary Poetry.

Works

* ''Sed'' (Eclepsidra, 1998) * ''mandados'' (La Liebre Libre, 2000) * ''Es de día'' (El Pez Soluble, 2004) * ''La Noche y sus agüeros'' (El Pez Soluble, 2007) * ''Ética del aire'' (bid & co. editor, 2008) * ''Nido de tordo'' (Kalathos, 2015) * ''Textos por fuera'' (El taller blanco, 2020)

References

1968 births Living people Venezuelan women poets Andrés Bello Catholic University alumni Writers from Caracas {{venezuela-poet-stub