Susana Rotker

Susana Rotker
Born(1954-07-03)3 July 1954
Caracas, Venezuela
Died27 November 2000(2000-11-27) (aged 46)
Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Alma materUniversity of Maryland
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
SpouseTomás Eloy Martínez
AwardsCasa de las Américas Prize (1991)

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 Catholic 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, ISBN 9802530778
  • Bravo Pueblo: Poder, Utopia Y Violencia, Fondo Editorial Nave Va., ISBN 9806481135
  • Ensayistas De Nuestra América, Editorial Losada, ISBN 9500304880, 9789500304887
  • Ciudadanías del miedo, Nueva Sociedad, Caracas, 2000, 249 pp., ISBN 980-317-175-5
  • The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Oxford University Press
  • The American Chronicles of Jose Marti: Journalism and Modernity in Spanish America, ISBN 0874519020
  • La invención de la crónica [es], Fondo de cultura económica, ISBN 9789681678296, 968167829X[5]
  • Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 9780813530352
  • Captive Women: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 236 pp., ISBN 0-8166-4030-0

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Susana Rotker" (in Spanish). Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Saxon, Wolfgang (2 December 2000). "Susana Rotker-Martinez, 46, Language Professor at Rutgers". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Murió la escritora Susana Rotker" [The Writer Susana Rotker Dies]. La Nación (in Spanish). 29 November 2000. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  4. ^ Cuesta C., Cecilia (2009). "Reseña de Susana Rotker Bravo Pueblo". Voz y Escritura (in Spanish) (17). University of the Andes: 173. Retrieved 8 August 2018 – via scribd.
  5. ^ "La invención de la crónica" (in Spanish). Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano. 10 March 2016. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  6. ^ Tulchin, Joseph S. (December 1997). "Introduction" (PDF). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: 3. Retrieved 8 August 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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