Susana Rotker Explained

Susana Rotker
Birth Date:	3 July 1954
Birth Place:	Caracas, Venezuela
Death Place:	Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Occupation:	Journalist, writer
Spouse:	Tomás Eloy Martínez
Awards:	Casa de las Américas Prize (1991)
Alma Mater:	University of Maryland

Susana Rotker (3 July 1954 – 27 November 2000) was a Venezuelan journalist, columnist, essayist, and writer.^[1]

Biography

The daughter of Jewish immigrants, Susana Rotker graduated from Andrés Bello National University in Caracas in 1975, was an assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires,^[2] and received a doctorate in Hispanic literature from the University of Maryland in 1989.^[2] She was a professor of Latin American literature and director of the Rutgers Center for Hemispheric Studies in New Jersey.^[1]

She was a noted film critic in her column "La gran ilusión" in the Caracas newspaper El Nacional.^{[3] [4]}

Around 1979, she met the Argentine intellectual Tomás Eloy Martínez exiled in Venezuela, with whom she had a daughter Sol Ana in 1986, and with whom she lived until the traffic accident that cost Rotker her life in 2000.^[2] She resided in Highland Park, New Jersey.^[2]

Books

• Isaac Chocron y Elisa Lerner: Los Transgresores De La Literatura Venezolana Reflexiones Sobre La Identidad Judía, 1991,
• Bravo Pueblo: Poder, Utopia Y Violencia, Fondo Editorial Nave Va.,
• Ensayistas De Nuestra América, Editorial Losada,
• Ciudadanías del miedo, Nueva Sociedad, Caracas, 2000, 249 pp.,
• The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Oxford University Press
• The American Chronicles of Jose Marti: Journalism and Modernity in Spanish America,
• , Fondo de cultura económica, ^[5]
• Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America, Rutgers University Press,
• Captive Women: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 236 pp.,

Awards

In 1991 she received the Casa de las Américas Prize for her work La invención de la crónica about José Martí.^[3]

She was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 1997.^{[1] [6]}

Further reading

• News: En memoria de Susana Rotker . Tomás Eloy . Martínez . . es . 22 December 2000 . https://archive.today/20120630093821/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/45920-en-memoria-de-susana-rotker?sitio=desktop# . 2012-06-30 . 2018-08-08 . live .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Susana Rotker . Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano . es . 8 August 2018.
2. News: Susana Rotker-Martinez, 46, Language Professor at Rutgers . Wolfgang . Saxon . . 2 December 2000 . 8 August 2018.
3. News: Murió la escritora Susana Rotker . The Writer Susana Rotker Dies . . es . 29 November 2000 . 8 August 2018.
4. Reseña de Susana Rotker Bravo Pueblo . Cecilia . Cuesta C. . Voz y Escritura . . 17 . 173 . es . 2009 . 8 August 2018 . scribd.
5. Web site: La invención de la crónica . Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano . es . 10 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160310163411/http://fnpi.org/recursos/publicaciones/la-invencion-de-la-cronica-susana-rotker/ . 10 March 2016 . dead . 8 August 2018.
6. Introduction . Joseph S. . Tulchin . . 3 . December 1997 . 8 August 2018.