Rita Guibert (December 5, 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – December 5, 2007 in New York, US) was an American author, journalist (print, television, radio), editor, researcher and translator. Rita Guibert is best known as the author of the critically acclaimed SEVEN VOICES Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert. The Seven Voices are in-depth tape recorded interviews of

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and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The

Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in ...

was awarded to

in 1971, Miguel Angel Asturias in 1967,

in 1990 and

in 1982. Specific interviews of

and

conducted by Rita Guibert including text that was not included in SEVEN VOICES Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert were also reprinted. Guibert was a reporter at LIFE en Español, collaborated at the Latin American Desk of Associated Press and was a member of the board of contributors at Nuestro. Her articles have appeared in the Paris Review, Intellectual Digest, Review 72, Vista Magazine and Revista Iberoamerica. At ANACITEC, she was the Representative to the NGO-UN, Vice President for Cultural Affairs and Editor of their newsletter. Her personal interviews took her from the United States to Chile, England, France and Spain. She interviewed

in Isla Negra, Chile,

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miguel Angel Asturias in Paris,

in Churchill College, Cambridge,

in Paris,

in Barcelona and New York City, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante in London. She accompanied

to Stockholm when he was awarded the

Nobel Prize for Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in t ...

in 1971. After a few days in Stockholm, she traveled with

and his wife to Warsaw to attend the Polish premiere of his play ''Splendor and Death of Joaquín Murieta''. She translated multiple children's books into Spanish for Random House Farrar Straus and Giroux, E.P. Dutton and Dial Press, short stories and educational material for Scholastic, as well as art catalogs for Chase Manhattan Bank Program. The Museum of Modern Art, and American Museum of Folk Art. She was editor of Estancias, Las Grandes Haciendas de Argentina. The book was published simultaneously in three editions: English, French and Spanish. In 2015

Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

published ''Seven Voices; Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert'' as an e-book in English and Spanish.

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