Circe Maia

Circe Maia ( born June 29, 1932 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan writer.

Growing up in the first seven years of life in Tacuarembó, the daughter of the notary who died in 1983 Julio Maia and María Magdalena Rodríguez returned then returned to her native city of Montevideo. She has a sister named Isis Abigail and died at the age of 24 years due to an accident brother by the name of Julio César ( Lucho ). At the age of eleven years wrote Circe Maia 1944 volume of poetry Plumitas. Maia studied in the 1950s at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA ) and the Universidad de la República of FHC. 25 -year-old she married Ariel Ferreira. The marriage produced six children and eight grandchildren so far were born. In 1960 she joined the group led by Nancy Barcelo Siete Poetas Hispanoamericanos at ( Seven Latin American poet ). In 1962, she interrupted her studies, returned to Tacuarembó and took a job as a teacher of philosophy at a secondary school. In the early phase of incipient dictatorship in Uruguay, her husband was arrested by the military in 1972 and spent two years in prison. In 1976 she had to give up her teaching, she in 1985, after the restoration of democracy resumed and continued until 2001. However, they are still teaching English in a private educational institution. The oktroyierte her career break she used to develop their English and French language skills and also to learn modern Greek. In 1983, she lost one of her children 18 -year-old in a car accident. Maia published primarily poems, in 1986 then appeared with Destrucciones her first prose work. The following year, joined with Un viaje a Salto their second publication of this article The latter was translated into English by Stephanie Stewart and published in 2004 in a bilingual edition A Trip to Salto in Chicago at Swan Isle Press. 2002 Circe Maia won the First Prize of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC ) for the 2001 published Breve sol Maia's work has been partly translated into English, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish.

Works

  • Plumitas (1944 )
  • En el tiempo ( 1st edition 1958, 2nd edition 1975)
  • Presencia diaria (1964 )
  • El puente (1970 )
  • Cambio, permanencias (1st edition 1978, 2nd edition 1990)
  • Dos voces (1981 )
  • Destrucciones (1986)
  • Un viaje a Salto ( 1st edition 1987, 2nd edition 1992)
  • Superficies (1990 )
  • Círculo de luz, círculo de sombra (1996 ), anthology of their works in Swedish
  • De lo visible (1998)
  • Breve sol ( 2001)
  • Obra poética (2007)
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