Fernando Báez (writer) explained

Fernando Báez (born San Félix, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan writer, poet, essayist and "El Director de la Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela".^[1] He is known for his work on the destruction of Iraqi books and art caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Career

Báez has a degree in education and a doctorate in library science, and worked for several years at the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, where he studied Greek and Latin under José Manuel Briceño Guerrero.^[2] He was declared a persona non-grata by the United States authorities, after the publication of his book on Iraq.^{[3] [4]}

Works

• Historia de la Antigua Biblioteca de Alejandría (2003)
• Historia Universal de la Destrucción de Libros (2004)^[5]
• La Destrucción Cultural de Iraq (2004)
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Novels

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Translations

• Book: Los Fragmentos de Aristóteles . 2002 . Universidad de los Andes, Ediciones del Vicerrectorado Académico . es.
• Book: Poética de Aristóteles . 2002 . Universidad de los Andes, Ediciones del Vicerrectorado Académico . es.

See also

• Destruction of libraries
• Book burning

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120331102541/http://www.fernandobaez.galeon.com/
• https://independent.academia.edu/FernandoBaez

Notes and References

1. Web site: El traductor de Cambridge, de Fernando Báez . 365 dias de libros . . 27 August 2022 . es . 2 March 2009.
2. Web site: Fernando Báez y Los fragmentos de Aristóteles . Rattia . Rafael . . Analitica.com . 27 August 2022 . es . 4 July 2003.
3. News: Becerra . Mauricio . Fernando Báez, autor de la Historia de la Destrucción de Libros: “En Latinoamérica tenemos una visión de progreso decimonónica” . 27 August 2022 . . . 13 December 2010 . es.
4. News: Fernando Baez: "Sin destruir libros no se gana la guerra" . 27 August 2022 . . 10 April 2005 . es.
5. Web site: Báez . Fernando . Historia universal de la destrucción de los libros : De las tablillas sumerias a la guerra de Irak . Universidad Nacional de La Plata . Sudamericana . 27 August 2022 . Buenos Aires . 2005.
6. Book: Baez, Fernando . A Universal History of the Destruction of Books . 2008 . . New York . 978-1-934633-01-4 . 58–60 . registration .
7. Garrett . Jeffrey . Why Burn a Library? Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries throughout History . By Lucien X. Polastron. Translated from the French by, Jon E. Graham. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2007. Pp. xii+371. $24.95 (cloth). 978‐159477167‐5. Originally published as Livres en feu (Paris: Editions Denoël, 2004). Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction . By Rebecca Knuth. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006. Pp. xiv+233. $39.95 (cloth). 0‐275‐99007–9. A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq . By Fernando Báez. Translated from the Spanish by, Alfred MacAdam. New York: Atlas, 2008. Pp. xii+355. $25.00 (cloth). 1‐934633‐01‐4. Originally published as De las tablillas sumerias a la Guerra de Irak (Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 2004). . . October 2009 . 79 . 4 . 489–493 . 10.1086/605386 . 27 August 2022.