Ida Gramcko Explained

Ida Gramcko (Puerto Cabello, 1924 – Caracas, 1994) was a Venezuelan essayist and poet.^[1] She was a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.

Personal life

Gramcko was born in Venezuela to a German father and Venezuelan mother. Her sister, Elsa Gramcko, was an abstract sculptor and painter.^[2]

Publications

• Threshold (1941)
• Glass House (1944)
• Against the naked heart of Heaven (1944)
• The Magic Wand (1948)
• Poems (1952)
• Maria Lionza (1955) verse drama
• Poems of a psychotic (1964)
• The most murmurs (1965)
• Sun and loneliness (1966)
• This boulder (1967, prose and poetry)
• Psalms (1968)
• 0 degrees North Franco (1969)
• The aesthetes, the beggars, the heroes: Poems, 1958 (1970)
• Sonnets of Origin (1972)
• The wanderings and find. Anthology (1972)
• Chores, knowledge, companies (1973)
• Salto Angel (1985)
• Selected Works (1988)
• Treno (1993)

Notes and References

1. [Anne Commire|Commire, Anne]
2. Web site: Elsa Gramcko, la artista abstracta venezolana que destacó por su calidez. July 26, 2021. Siempre Venezuela.