The young Wafi Salih (1987) in her university training stage, had already published "Adagio", her first book.

Wafi Salih (born 5 June 1965 in Trujillo) is a Venezuelan-born writer of Lebanese descent. Writer of: poetry, short stories, essays, dramaturgy and film scripts. She is recognized as “the master of short poetry in Venezuela” for her extensive exploration of haiku poetry, a literary genre of Japanese origin. Her books has been translated into English, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Magister in Latin American Literature, graduated from the “Universidad de los Andes”. She has a doctoral project in History and twenty books published in several genres. She was founder of “José Antonio Ramos Sucre” a literary workshop for seven consecutive years, which contributed to the training of Venezuelan artists and researchers.[5]

Her thesis about female gender, is an innovative proposal about feminism. A profuse reflection that opens a question about the modes of cultural production and its effects on the social being. This research was published in Monte Ávila Editores in 2007 under the name: “The images of the absent”.[6]

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Adagio (Adage) (1987) [7]
  • Los cantos de la noche. (Songs of the night) (1990):[8]
  • Las horas del aire (The hours of the air) (1991)
  • Pájaro de raíces (Bird of roots) (2002) Winner of the poetry contest “Every day a book”, 2004[9][10]
  • El Dios de las dunas (The God of the Dunes) (2005)
  • Huésped del alba (Guest of dawn) (2006)
  • Jugando con la poesía (Playing with poetry) (2006)
  • Caligrafía del aire (Air Calligraphy) (2007) [11]
  • Cielos descalzos (Barefoot Skies) (2009) [12]
  • Vigilia de huesos (Vigil of bones) (2010)
  • Con el índice de una lágrima (the index finger of a tear )
  • Honor al fuego (Honor to the fire) (2018)
  • Consonantes de agua (Water Consonants) (2018) [13]
  • Sojam (Sojam) (2018) [14]
  • Cielo avaro (Greedy heaven) (2018) [15]
  • Serena en la plenitud (Serene in the fullness) (2020) Anthology.[16]

Essays and Narrative

  • Las imágenes de la ausente. (The images of the absent) (2012) Essay.
  • Más allá de lo que somos. (Beyond who we are) (2018) Essay.
  • Hombre moreno viene en camino. (Black man is on his way): Theatrical monologues.
  • Discípula de Jung. (Disciple of Jung) (2016): Story.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Wafi Salih: la sagrada nostalgia de dos mundos, por José Pulido". Letralia, Tierra de Letras (in Spanish). 2020-03-19. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  2. ↑ "Wafi Salih". www.revistasinestesia.com (in Spanish). 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  3. ↑ "thepoetmagazine.org: wafi-salih".
  4. ↑ "haiku-vi". 9 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "wafi-salih-un-padre-que-respira-entre-los-cedros".
  6. ↑ "Wafi Salih: Poesía actual de Venezuela". 8 January 2020.
  7. ↑ Salih, Wafi (1987). Adagio (in Spanish). Barquisimeto, Venezuela: Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador.
  8. ↑ "wafi-salih-la-poeta-oficiante-del-haiku-i-por-ramon-rivasaez". 28 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "3 poemas de Wafi Salih #PoesíaVenezolana". Poémame - Revista abierta de poesía (in Spanish). 2020-02-26. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  10. ↑ Salih, Wafi (2002). Pájaro de Raices (in Spanish). Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Mérida, Venezuela: Ediciones Luna nueva. ISBN 979-8478919917.
  11. ↑ Salih, Wafi (2007). Caligrafía del aire. Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Alfalfa. ISBN 978-8498217780.
  12. ↑ Salih, Wafi (2009). Cielos descalzos. ISBN 978-9801404941.
  13. ↑ Consonantes de Agua (in Spanish). Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Barralibros. 2018. ASIN B08235LFNC.
  14. ↑ Salih, Wafi (2018). Sojam (in Spanish). Translated by Vásquez, Soledad. Barralibros. ASIN B08235LFNC.
  15. ↑ "La poesía generosa de Wafi Salih". La Web de la Salud (in Spanish). 2021-01-30. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  16. ↑ Mendía, Gladys (2020-04-20). "Wafi Salih: Serena en la Plenitud". Revista de Literatura y Arte (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  17. ↑ Andrea Paola Hernández (2017-01-22). "La discípula del Jung vivo | Sobre el libro "Discípula de Jung" de Wafi Salih (Negro Sobre Blanco, 2016) + 4 poemas, por José Miguel Navas". Digo.palabra.txt (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-23.
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