| Suleika Ibáñez | |
| Birth Name: | Suleika Ibáñez Iglesias |
| Birth Date: | 8 December 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Death Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation: | Writer, teacher, translator |
| Mother: | Sara de Ibáñez |
| Spouse: | Vladimiro Collazo |
| Children: | Marcia Collazo |
| Relatives: | (sister) |
Suleika Ibáñez Iglesias (8 December 1930 – 7 March 2013) was a Uruguayan writer, teacher, and translator.
Suleika Ibáñez was born in Montevideo on 8 December 1930, the daughter of poets and Sara de Ibáñez. Her siblings were the writers and Solveig Ibáñez.[1] [2] She was married to plastic artist Vladimiro Collazo, and was the mother of writer Marcia Collazo. Another daughter, Galia, died at a young age, and Ibáñez dedicated the 2002 book Galia, con quien tanto quería to her.[3] [4]
She taught literature in Lavalleja Department, in Melo, at the (IPA), and at the Catholic University of Uruguay.[1]
She received awards in contests by Givré (Buenos Aires, 1976), (1985),[2] and the newspaper La Hora (1986).[5] In 1989, the awarded her two first prizes in poetry and narrative. That year, she and shared a dramaturgy prize from the publishing house . In 1998, she won first prize from Uruguay's Academia Nacional de Letras with an essay on Juana de Ibarbourou,[2] and an honorable mention from the Biblioteca Nacional for an essay on César Vallejo.[5] In 2010, she received the Cultural Career Award, during the Poets of the Two Shores Congress in Punta del Este, from the publishing house Botella al Mar.[1] [5]
Suleika Ibáñez died in Montevideo on 7 March 2013.[1] [5]