Ana Teresa Torres Explained

Ana Teresa Torres
Birth Date:6 July 1945
Birth Place:Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation:Novelist
Nationality:Venezuelan
Notableworks:Doña Inés vs. Oblivion
Awards: Pegasus Prize Anna Seghers Prize
Alma Mater:Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Language:Spanish
Genre:Novel, historial fiction, science fiction
Education:Psicologist

Ana Teresa Torres (born 6 July 1945) is a Venezuelan 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 Caracas, Venezuela, and is a trained psychoanalyst. She studied psychology at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello 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.[1] She has taught courses on both psychology and creative writing.[2]

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).[3] [4]

On 16 January 2006, Torres took up seat F in the Academia venezolana de la lengua (Venezuelan Academy of the Language).[5]

Bibliography

Novels

Non fiction

In anthologies

References

  1. Web site: 2015-11-09. Cronología académica y profesional. 2020-07-06. Ana Teresa Torres. es.
  2. Web site: 2020-07-06. Ana Teresa Torres cumple 75 años Letralia, Tierra de Letras. 2020-07-06. letralia.com. es.
  3. Book: Brown, Katie. Writing and the revolution : Venezuelan metafiction, 2004-2012. Liverpool University Press. 2019. 978-1-78694-282-1. Liverpool. 21. 1105988429.
  4. Web site: Socorro. Milagros. Ana Teresa Torres: La protagonista descarriada por el deseo. 2020-07-06. Milagros Socorro. es-ES.
  5. Web site: Ana Teresa Torres. 2020-07-06. www.asale.org. es.
  6. Web site: La escribana del viento, de Ana Teresa Torres, ganadora del Premio de la Crítica 2013 - FicciónBreve. 2020-07-06. ficcionbreve.org. en-US.
  7. Jarman. Rebecca Sarah Elizabeth. 143729605. 2015-01-02. Against Utopia: Fantasies of Emancipation in Ana Teresa Torres's Nocturama (2006). Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 24. 1. 19–32. 10.1080/13569325.2014.993309. 1356-9325.
  8. Kozak. Gisela. 2006. De Eisenstein a Fassbinder, de la revolución a la desesperación: Los "últimos espectadores del acorazado Potemkin," de Ana Teresa Torres. Iberoamericana. 6. 23. 77–89. 41676093.
  9. Figuera . Maria . 2009-01-01 . The cartography of borders in Ana Teresa Torres’s “Doña Inés Vs. Oblivion” . Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest . 1–196.
  10. Web site: Carreño. Victor. 2020-05-11. Diario en ruinas (1998-2017) by Ana Teresa Torres. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200528084552/http://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/2020/may/diario-en-ruinas-19982017-ana-teresa-torres . 28 May 2020 . 2020-07-06. Latin American Literature Today. en.

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