Sonia Manzano Vela Explained

Sonia Manzano Vela
Birth Place:Guayaquil, Ecuador
Occupation:Writer, poet
Language:Spanish
Genre:Poetry, novel, short story
Awards:Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize (1999)

Sonia Manzano Vela (born Guayaquil, 27 February 1947)[1] [2] is an Ecuadorian writer and poet.[3]

Literary career

She started her literary career when some of her poems appeared in the anthology Generación Huracanada (1970), which was also the name of a literary group of which Manzano was part. Her first poetry book was El nudo y el trino, printed in 1972. She then published Casi siempre las tardes (1974), La gota en el cráneo (1976), La semana que no tiene jueves (1978), El ave que todo lo atropella (1980), Caja musical con bailarina incluida (1984), Carcoma con forma de paloma (1986) and Full de reinas (1991), which achieved commercial success.[4]

Other poetry books published by Manzano include Patente de corza (1997), Último regreso a Edén (2007) and Espalda mordida por el humo (2014).[5] [6]

Manzano also became a proficient short fiction writer, having obtained the 1989 Ecuadorian Feminist Short-Story Contest. Her book Flujo escarlata won the 1999 Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize in the category Best Short-Story Collection. Her second short fiction book, Trata de viejas (2015), contains 10 stories filled with black humor that dig into nostalgia, loneliness and other problems of old age.[7] [8]

Her first novel, Y no abras la ventana todavía, won the first prize in the "Bienal de Novela Ecuatoriana" contest in 1993. She subsequently published the novels Que se quede el infinito sin estrellas (2001) and Eses fatales (2005), which Manzano described as "a genocentric discourse in which esses and feces converge as the characteristics of the most profound loneliness" and that explore topics such as literary creations, solitude and lesbian love.[9]

Her latest novel, Solo de vino a piano lento, was published in 2013 and was named by literary critic Antonio Sacoto as the best novel written by an Ecuadorian woman so far in the 21st century.[10]

Published works

Poetry

Novels

Short-story collections

Notes and References

  1. Book: Manzano, Sonia . Patente de Corza: poesía . . 9978804250 . Quito, Ecuador . 1997 . es.
  2. Web site: Sonia Manzano: La creación debe ser anterior a la reflexión crítica . 20 July 2018 . 23 September 2013 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20180720200617/https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/carton/1/sonia-manzano-la-creacion-debe-ser-anterior-a-la-reflexion-critica . 20 July 2018 . es .
  3. Web site: Los Manzano: un legado de arpegios . 20 July 2018 . 2 April 2013 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20180720201116/https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/espectaculos/10/los-manzano-un-legado-de-arpegios . 20 July 2018 . es.
  4. Book: Martinho, Ana María . Narradoras Ecucatorianas de Hoy: Una Antologia Critica . Editorial, UPR . 0847700879 . Puerto Rico . 2000 . 242 . es .
  5. Official website of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Flujo escarlata. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  6. Web site: Historias de mujeres en el cuentario de Sonia Manzano . 20 July 2018 . 23 February 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20170314235955/https://www.eluniverso.com/vida-estilo/2015/02/23/nota/4582041/historias-mujeres-cuentario-sonia-manzano . 14 March 2017 . es.
  7. Web site: Manzano aborda universos existenciales de la vejez en el libro 'Trata de viejas' . 19 July 2018 . García . Alexander . 8 September 2005 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20160129094745/http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/soniamanzano-literatura-tratadeviejas-libros-guayaquil.html . 29 January 2016 . es .
  8. Web site: Sonia Manzano halla el humor en lo macabro . 20 July 2018 . 1 March 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20180720202128/http://www.expreso.ec/vivir/sonia-manzano-halla-el-humor-en-lo-macabro-GWGR_7585621 . 20 July 2018 . es.
  9. Web site: Manzano devela claves de su obra . 19 July 2018 . Medina . Clara . 8 September 2005 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20170911200856/https://www.eluniverso.com/2005/09/08/0001/261/D2569C709DA245F7935D14E7A88ECDFA.html . 11 September 2017 . es .
  10. Web site: Solo de vino a piano lento . 19 July 2018 . Sacoto . Antonio . 18 May 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20180719220929/https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/2015/34/solo-de-vino-a-piano-lento . 19 July 2018 . es.

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