| Arturo Carrera | |
| Birth Date: | 27 March 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Coronel Pringles, Argentina |
| Occupation: | Poet |
Arturo Carrera (born 27 March 1948) is an Argentine poet.[1]
Arturo Carrera was born on 27 March 1948 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province.
In 1966, he moved to Buenos Aires where he worked on various literary projects with the writer César Aira, also from Coronel Pringles, with whom he founded the literary magazine El Cielo. During the 1980s he joined the editorial team of the magazine XUL.
He has published translations of poets like Yves Bonnefoy, Stéphane Mallarmé, Henri Michaux, Haroldo de Campos, John Ashbery, Giorgio Agamben, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sandro Penna.
His poems were translated into English, Swedish, Portuguese, French and Italian and he has been widely published in literary magazines and included in numerous anthologies such as 200 años de poesía argentina, Edited by Jorge Monteleone (Buenos Aires: Alfaguara. 2010), Almanacco dello specchio, Edited by Maurizio Cucchi and Antonio Riccardi (Italy: Mondadori, 2009), The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Edited by Cecilia Vicuña and Ernesto Livon Grosman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), Una antología de la poesía Argentina (1970–2008), Edited by Jorge Fondebrider (Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones, 2008), Una gravedad alegre, Edited by Armando Romero (Valladolid, Spain: Ed. Difácil, 2007), PUENTES/ PONTES. Contemporary Argentina and Brazilian Poetry - bilingual edition, Edited by Heloísa Buarque de Holanda and Jorge Monteleone (Argentine: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003), Poesimöte i Malmö, poetry book (Sweden, 2003), Prístina y última piedra. Anthology of Latin American Poetry, Edited by Ernesto Lumbreras and Eduardo Milán (México: Aldus, 1999), El turno y la transición. Antología de la Poesía Latinoamericana del Siglo XXI, Edited by Julio Ortega (México: Siglo XXI, 1997), Medusario, Muestra de Poesía Latinoamericana, Edited by Roberto Echavarren, José Kozer and Jacobo Sefamí (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996), Poètes argentins, (France: Action Poétique Nº 138-139, 1995), Autores argentinos de fin de siglo, Prologue by Francisco Madariaga, Edited by Juano Villafañe (Buenos Aires: Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos, 1995), A palavra poetica na América Latina. Avaliaçao de uma geraçao, Edited by Horacio Costa (São Paulo, Brazil: Fundaçao Memorial da America Latina, 1992), Antologia de poesia Hispano-Americana atual (São Paulo, Brazil: USP Nº 13, 1992), Caribe transplatino, Poesía neobarroca cubana y rioplatense, Edited by Néstor Perlongher (Saô Paulo, Brazil: Iluminuras, 1991), Antología de la poesía Hispanoamericana actual, Edited by Julio Ortega (México: Siglo XXI Ed., 1987).
He has been invited to read his work and to give workshops and conferences in Latin America, USA and Europe such as University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, University of Santiago in Chile, University of Los Andes in Venezuela, Princeton University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Ateneu Barcelonès, La Caixa Foundation (Madrid), Cosmopoética (Córdoba-Spain), Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani (Recanati), University of Macerata (Italy), Stendhal-Grenoble University and Paris Sorbonne University.
He has written on the work of contemporary Argentine artists and founded, with the playwright and poet Emeterio Cerro, the puppet theatre El escándalo de la serpentina. Lorca style street theater that focused experience in painting and got together, among other artists, Enrique Aguirrezabala, Guillermo Kuitca, Juan Lecuona, Fabián Marcaccio, Alfredo Prior, Marcia Schvartz and the musicians Diana Baroni y Claudio Baroni.
Founded in 2006 together with Juan José Cambre, César Aira, Alfredo Prior and other artist friends ESTACIÓN PRINGLES: utopia that is now materialized in the form of a Literary Translator Center, poetic post, stopover and multiple interventions place, a platform or scene where scattered aesthetic practices can be added, articulated and made visible. Currently holds the post of president.
He received, among other distinctions, the National Poetry Prize Mauricio Kohen for his book Animaciones suspendidas (1985), the Antorchas Fellowship, career in the arts (1990), a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1995), the First Poetry Prize of Buenos Aires City for his book La banda oscura de Alejandro (1998), Konex Prize on Poetry (2004) and Poetry Hispanoamerican Prize Festival de la Lira, Ecuador, for his book Las Cuatro Estaciones (2009).
Books of criticism on his poetry: