Ivonne Coñuecar Explained

Ivonne Coñuecar
Birth Date:	1980
Birth Place:	Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile
Occupation:	Poet, novelist, journalist
Language:	Spanish

Ivonne Coñuecar (born September 26, 1980) is a Mapuche writer, poet and journalist from Coyhaique, Chile.

Her first novel, Coyhaiqueer, won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019.^[1] She currently lives in Argentina.

Early life and education

Coñuecar was born in 1980. At 14 years old, she began to write for a literary supplement of Diario de Aysén, from 1994 to 1998.^[2]

Coñuecar began to study law at the Austral University of Chile, but later changed her studies to communication studies and journalism in the same university.^[3] She graduated there with a master's degree in Contemporary Latin American literature, thanks to a scholarship granted by the National Council of Culture and the Arts.^[4] Her thesis was about the literature of the Aysén Region.^[5]

Career

In 2008, Coñuecar published her first collection of poems, Catabática, first part of a trilogy of poetry that includes Adiabática (2009) and Anabática (2014).^[6]

In 2018, she released her novel Coyhaiqueer, a book about the queer community in the Coyhaique commune,^[7] which received the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019.

Works

Novels

• Coyhaiqueer (Ñire Negro Ediciones, 2018)

Poetry

• Trasandina (Ñire Negro Ediciones, 2017)
• Patriagonia (LOM Ediciones, 2014)
• Chagas (Editorial Fuga, 2010)
• Adiabática (Ediciones Kultrún, 2009)
• Catabática (Editorial Jabalí, 2008)

Participation in anthologies

• Provinciana n.º 2. Revista de Literatura y pensamiento (University of Valparaiso, 2019)
• Con mi caracol y mi revólver. Muestra de poesía chilena reciente (Vallejo & Co, 2018)
• ¡¡BASTA!! 100 mujeres contra la violencia de género (Editorial Asterion, 2012)
• Küme Dungun/Küme Wirin. Antología Poetas Mujeres Mapuche (LOM Ediciones, 2011)
• Voces para Lilith. Literatura contemporánea de temática lésbica en Sudamérica (ed. by Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Editorial Estruendomudo, 2011)
• Lof sitiado. Homenaje poético al pueblo mapuche de Chile (edited by Jaime Huenún, 2011)
• Escrituras de la memoria, reescritura de La Araucana (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2010)
• Revista Nomadías n°11 (Universidad de Chile, 2009)
• Antología. Concurso de cuentos sobre VIH (SEREMI de Salud, 2004)
• Antología del Primer Concurso de Cuentos Escuela de Medicina (Austral University of Chile, 2003)
• Antología del Décimo Concurso Nacional de Cuentos Fernando Santiván (Corporación Cultural Municipal de Valdivia, 2003)
• Antología poética de mujeres latinoamericanas Voces de luna (Editions Alondras, Canada, 2001)

Awards and nominations

• Santiago Municipal Literature Award, novel category, for Cohyaiqueer, 2019.

Notes and References

1. News: El Jurado da a conocer a los ganadores de los Premios Literarios 2019. The Jury announces the winners of the 2019 Literary Awards. Subdirección de Cultura de la Municipalidad de Santiago. es . 27 December 2019. 4 June 2022.
2. News: Universidades estatales de la patagonia celebran el día internacional del libro a través de sus poetas. State universities of Patagonia celebrate International Book Day through their poets. Universidad de Aysén . es . 22 April 2020. 4 June 2022.
3. News: La Patriagonia de Ivonne Coñuecar. The Patagonia of La Patriagonia de Ivonne Coñuecar. Zerán. Faride. El Mostrador. es . 26 January 2015. 4 June 2022.
4. Web site: Ivonne Coñuecar. Editorial Ñire Negro. es. 4 June 2022.
5. News: "Trasandina" un símil de la extranjeria y la infancia de Ivonne Coñuecar.. Radio Ventisqueros. es . 23 October 2017. 4 June 2022.
6. Moraga García. Fernanda . 2012. Catabática: cartografías de subjetividades fronterizas. Catabática: border subjectivities cartography. es. Revista Literatura y Lingüística. 26. 47–59. 4 June 2022.
7. News: Libro revela el mundo queer de Coyhaique. Book reveals the queer side of Cohyaique. El Desconcierto. es . 6 April 2019. 4 June 2022.