Hanni Ossott Explained

Hanni Ossott
Birth Date:	14 February 1946
Birth Place:	Caracas, Venezuela
Birth Name:	Hanni Ossott
Death Place:	Caracas, Venezuela
Death Date:	31 December 2002 (aged 56)
Occupation:	poet
Spouse:	Manuel Caballero
Alma Mater:	Universidad Central de Venezuela

Hanni Ossott (14 February 1946 – 31 December 2002)^[1] was a Venezuelan poet, translator and critic.

Life

She was born in Caracas and she received her bachelor's degree in the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she was also a professor. She was awarded the José Antonio Ramos Sucre Prize and the Lazo Martí Prize and she worked as a translator and a critic. She translated some of the works of Rainer Maria Rilke and Emily Dickinson into Spanish. Her poetry explored themes of existence, sickness, identity, the soul, and the abstract.^{[2] [3]} She was respected as one of the great Venezuelan poets of her time,^{[4] [5] [6]} but remains virtually unknown outside of Venezuela.^[7]

Main works

• Hasta que llegue el día y huyan las sombras (1983)
• El reino donde la noche se abre(1986)
• Plegarias y penumbras (1986)
• Cielo, tu arco grande (1989)
• Casa de agua y de sombras (1992)
• El circo roto (1993).

References

1. Encyclopedia: Hanni Ossott . Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 . 2004 . Gallaraga Oropeza. Victor. Gonzalez . Mike . Balderston . Daniel . Routledge . 9780415306874 .
2. Llorens . Manuel . Poetry Talks Back to Psychiatry: Poetic Retellings of Psychiatric Experience in Venezuela. . Review of Disability Studies. 2010 . 10 . 2 . 1553-3697.
3. Lucca . Rafael Arráiz . Venezolanische Poesie: Un Paseo Para Turistas . INTI . 1996 . 43/44 . 242 . 8 February 2024 . es . 0732-6750.
4. Simonovis . Leonora . El Cuerpo De La Bestia: Una Mirada a Dos Poetas Venezolanas Contemporáneas . INTI . 2013 . 77/78 . 32 . 8 February 2024 . es . 0732-6750.
5. Márquez . Wladimir . A fuerza de ciudad: de poesía contemporánea venezolana . Confluencia . 2008 . es . 23 . 2 . 8 February 2024 . 0888-6091.
6. Book: Proaño . Franklin . La poesía femenina actual de Sudamérica . 1993 . Scripta Humanistica . es . Potomac, Md., USA . 9781882528042 . 357.
7. Arria . Eugenia . SOMOS LO QUE HABITAMOS: POÉTICAS DEL ESPACIO EN CASA DE AGUA Y DE SOMBRAS DE HANNI OSSOTT . Revista Chilena de Literatura . 2022 . 105 . es . 8 February 2024 . 0048-7651.

External links

• Hanni Ossott recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on 7 June 1990
• English translation of El reino dónde la noche se abre (The Realm Where Night Opens)