Eliana Navarro | |
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 Eliana Navarro, age 18 | |
| Born | (1920-06-19)19 June 1920 Valparaíso |
| Died | 5 June 2006(2006-06-05) (aged 85) |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Genre | Poetry |
Eliana Navarro Barahona (19 June 1920 – 5 June 2006) was aChileanpoet. Her poetry was praised from an early date by literary criticHernán Díaz Arrieta. Her poetry has been studied in various Chilean and foreign universities and her work appears in many national and foreignanthologies.
Eliana Navarro was born inValparaíso on June 19, 1920. Her parents were Fortunato Navarro Herrera, deputy forCautín Province and vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, and Guillermina Barahona Soriano, a teacher. In 1923, the family settled in Fundo El Peral, located inTrovolhue, province of Cautín, nowAraucanía Region.
Inspired by the landscape of Cautín and influenced by the southern poet Augusto Winter, Navarro wrote, at the age of seven, "La laguna de Trovolhue", one of her earliest poems. At the age of 14, her works were published in the magazinesMargarita andEn Viaje. After studying humanities at the Santa Cruz de Temuco school, she moved toSantiago where she studied Philosophy and Law at the Catholic and Chilean universities.
In 1951, Navarro publishedTres poemas (Three Poems), her first book. Four years later, she joined the Grupo Fuego de la Poesía founded by José Miguel Vicuña andCarlos René Correa. Carlos René Correa . In 1955, through Grupo Fuego de la Poesía, she publishedAntiguas voces llaman. The journals "Calicanto" and the "Literary Magazine of the Society of Writers of Chile " reviewed her verses in this period. She was a delegate to thePEN Club Congress inFráncfort in 1959. In 1963, she was a delegate of the Society of Writers of Chile (SECH) to the World Congress of Women for Peace in Moscow. In 1965, Navarro's book,La ciudad que fue, was published byEditorial Universitaria and was awarded thePedro de Oña prize.
Navarro worked for more than 40 years in the Library of the National Congress of Chile being for many years head of the Cataloging section. In 1973 , with her family, she formed the theater group "Mediodía", which, under the direction of Teodoro Lowey premiered in the Votive Temple of Maipú before a crowded audience the poem with vocals for choir entitledLa pasión según San Juan (The Passion According to San Juan). Published in 1980, she was awarded Eliana Navarro Prize byAcademia Chilena de la Lengua. In 1981, she attended as a guest speaker the International Congress of Women's Literature in Mexico. In 1995, her book,La Flor de la Montaña, was published by Editorial Universitaria in the collection "El Polydro and El Mar". On more than one occasion, she was a candidate for the National Prize for Literature and jurist in multiple poetry contests, including the Fondo del Libro y la Lectura.
Some of her works remain unpublished. One of them isProfesión de silencio (Profession of silence), in which she tackles injustice and pain from the repression suffered during the1973-90 military dictatorship of Chile.
At 25, she married the poet José Miguel Vicuña, who was on the law faculty of theUniversity of Chile.[1] She was mother of seven children, Ariel Vicuña, poet and musician; Ana María Vicuña, philosopher and teacher of classical languages; Miguel Vicuña, poet and philosopher; Juan Vicuña, a chemist, and a victim of torture during the dictatorship;Leonora Vicuña, photographer; Rodrigo Vicuña, editor; and Pedro Vicuña, poet and actor. Navarro died June 5, 2006, in Santiago, at the age of 75, a victim ofcerebral thrombosis.
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