Miguel Márquez (poet)
Miguel Márquez | |
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| Born | 1955 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Citizenship | Venezuelan |
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| Known for | Co-founder of Grupo Tráfico |
Miguel Márquez (born 1955) was a Venezuelan writer, poet, and editor.
Early life and education
[edit]Born in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas in 1955, Márquez got a degree in Philosophy from the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB).[1][2]
Career
[edit]Márquez dedicated most of his life to books, either as an author, researcher, editor, and bookstore manager.[3] He served as a director of both the Literature of the National Council of Culture of Venezuela (CONAC) and the Kuai-Mare Foundation's network of bookstores.[1][2] Márquez has been involved with other bookstores, including the one at the University of the Andes,[4] and the Ateneo de Caracas bookstore, where he worked as a collaborator.[2] He also participated in the Hojas de Calicanto workshop, worked as a researcher at the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies (CELARG), and even collaborated with the National Library of Venezuela.[1][2]
In 1981, Márquez, together with other poets of the literary Calicanto workshop, co-founded the Grupo Tráfico.[1][5] The following year, in 1982, he received the Fernando Paz Castillo Award for his work Cosas por decir ("Things to Say").[1] He has been included in various anthologies, including the Anthology of Venezuelan Poetry, which was written by Rafael Arraiz Lucca.[3]
He also served as the president of the state-owned publishing house El Perro y la Rana, a position that he held until 31 December 2009, when he resigned, citing personal reasons.[1][6] A few years later, he helped organize the inaugural edition of the World Poetry Festival of Venezuela, which was held in March 2014.[3] According to him, the World Poetry Festival should be looked at merely "as one more activity in the broader policy of inclusion and democratization of books and reading; that is, it is one more element within a whole that emerged alongside the Declaration of Venezuela as a country free of illiteracy".[5]
Works
[edit]- Cosas por decir (1982)
- Soneto al aire libre (1986)
- Poemas de Berna (1992)
- La casa, el paso (1991)
- A salvo en la penumbra (1999)
- Linaje de ofrenda (2004)
Bibliography
[edit]- Miranda, Julio (2001). Antología histórica de la poesía venezolana del siglo XX, 1907-1996 [Historical anthology of 20th-century Venezuelan poetry, 1907-1996] (in Spanish). San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. ISBN 978-0-847-70121-6.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Miguel Márquez". www.revistadepoesiaclave.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Miguel Márquez". www.antoniomiranda.com.br (in Breton). Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Miguel Márquez (Venezuela)". www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org (in Spanish). 22 November 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ Miranda 2001
- ^ a b ""Hay que ir hacia los otros para compartir la experiencia estremecedora de la poesía"" ["We must reach out to others to share the thrilling experience of poetry"] (PDF). www.archivopdp.unam.mx (in Spanish). 11 June 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
- ^ a b "El Perro y la La Rana sin Miguel Márquez" [The Dog and the Frog without Miguel Márquez]. www.eluniversal.com (in Spanish). 9 December 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2025.