Yolanda Pantin Explained

Yolanda Pantin
Birth Date:1954
Birth Place:Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation:Writer
Language:Spanish
Alma Mater:Andrés Bello Catholic University
Notable Works:
  • Casa o lobo
  • Correo del corazón
  • Poemas del escritor
  • Ratón y Vampiro se conocen
  • ¡Splash!
  • El hilo de la voz
Awards:

Yolanda Pantin (born 1954) is a Venezuelan author who has mainly written poetry, although she has also worked in children's literature.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Caracas, the eldest of eleven siblings, she spent her childhood in Turmero, Aragua. There, she studied arts at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas (renamed, Escuela de Artes Visuales Rafael Monasterios). In 1974, she returned to Caracas to study literature at Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB).[2]

Career

Pantin, who is included in the literary generation of 1978, founded that year the university group "Rastros". Her first texts appeared in the magazine, which she herself illustrated. The following year, she won an honorable mention in the Francisco Lazo Martí award with Casa o lobo, her first collection of poems, which would be published in 1981 by Monte Ávila Editores.[3]

In 1979, she joined the literary workshop "Calicanto", directed by the writer Antonia Palacios, where she rubbed shoulders with various writers of her generation. In 1981, she left Calicanto and co-founded, which broke with and questioned the nocturnal poetic approaches that prevailed in Venezuela at that time. Tráfico published a literary manifesto that criticized the poetic canons they considered outdated, which had a wide repercussion and promoted aesthetic renovation.[4] [5]

In 1986, the awarded Pantin a creative scholarship to promote her literary projects. She also worked as a cultural journalist for the weekly Número and as co-editor of Qué Pasa. In 1989, she was one of the founders of the publishing house Pequeña Venecia, which publishes poetry. In 1990, with Santos López, she created the "Casa de la Poesía Foundation".

In 2001, the María Lionza statue in Caracas was the inspiration for Pantin's poem "The pelvic bone"; in the poem, the narrator travels into Caracas for a protest and sees the statue. The image of the pelvis – its "most notable feature" – stays in the narrator's mind, and the poem goes on to address the statue directly.[6]

Pantin has been invited to book fairs and poetry festivals including the First Poetry Biennial (1991) in Val-de-Marne, France, and the Moscow Poetry Biennial (2019).[7] Fond of photography, Pantin participated in the Dedicatorias exhibition held at the Fundación La Poeteca in 2019.[8] There, a selection of images she took in 2008 while making the Trans-Siberian route could be seen.[9]

Awards and honours

Selected works

Poems

Poetry collections/anthologies

Children's and youth literature

Non-fiction

Theatre

Notes and References

  1. News: Yolanda Pantin gana el Premio de Poesía García Lorca . 14 February 2023 . El Nacional . 15 October 2020 . es-ES.
  2. Web site: Ríos . Rubén . Borgo . Karina Sainz . Karina Sainz Borgo . Yolanda Pantin: "La poesía puede intuir lo que aún la prosa no sabe" – Fundación . 14 February 2023 . es.
  3. Web site: pantin-yolanda-100 - Casa della poesia . casadellapoesia.org . 14 February 2023 . it.
  4. «Literatura Venezolana: Yolanda Pantin». (22 July 2011) Literatura Venezolana.
  5. Arráiz Lucca, Rafael. "Tráfico y Guaire: quince años después". Literatura venezolana hoy: Historia nacional y presente urbano, edited by Karl Kohut, Frankfurt a. M., Madrid: Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999, pp. 333-338. https://doi.org/10.31819/9783954879830-028
  6. Book: Venezuela's Bolivarian democracy: participation, politics, and culture under Chávez. 2011. Duke University Press. Smilde. David. Hellinger. Daniel. 978-0-8223-5024-8. Durham, NC. 703104540. 309–311.
  7. Web site: Bienal de Poesía en Moscú se dedica a América Latina . Circulo de Poesía . 14 February 2023 . es-MX . 1 December 2019.
  8. Web site: Fundación La Poeteca consolida en 2020 su espacio expositivo – Fundación . 2023-06-21 . es.
  9. News: La poeta Yolanda Pantin expone fotografías en La Poeteca . 14 February 2023 . Letralia, Tierra de Letras . 13 August 2019 . es.
  10. News: Secretaría de Cultura- Kit de prensa- Antonio Deltoro y Yolanda Pantin, ganadores del Premio Poetas del Mundo Latino Víctor Sandoval . 14 February 2023 . www.cultura.gob.mx . es.
  11. Web site: Il fiore della poesia latinoamericana d'oggi - 2 . www.raffaellieditore.com . 14 February 2023 . it.
  12. News: Galardón para la venezolana Yolanda Pantin . 14 February 2023 . Perfil . 23 September 2017 . es.
  13. News: González Vargas . José . Singer . Florantonia . La venezolana Yolanda Pantin gana el premio de Poesía Internacional García Lorca . 14 February 2023 . El País . 15 October 2020 . es.

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