Ivonne Coñuecar (born September 26, 1980) is a Mapuche writer, poet and journalist from Coyhaique, Chile.
Ivonne Coñuecar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1980 Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist, journalist |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Chilean |
Her first novel, Coyhaiqueer, won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019.[1] She currently lives in Argentina.[2]
Early life and education
Coñuecar was born in 1980. At 14 years old, she began to write for a literary supplement of Diario de Aysén, from 1994 to 1998.[3]
Coñuecar began to study law at the Austral University of Chile, but later changed her studies to communication studies and journalism in the same university.[2][4] She graduated there with a master's degree in Contemporary Latin American literature, thanks to a scholarship granted by the National Council of Culture and the Arts.[2] Her thesis was about the literature of the Aysén Region.[5]
Career
In 2008, Coñuecar published her first collection of poems, Catabática, first part of a trilogy of poetry that includes Adiabática (2009) and Anabática (2014).[3][6]
In 2018, she released her novel Coyhaiqueer, a book about the queer community in the Coyhaique commune,[7] which received the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in 2019.[3]
Works
Novels
- Coyhaiqueer (Ñire Negro Ediciones, 2018)
Poetry
- Trasandina (Ñire Negro Ediciones, 2017)
- Patriagonia (LOM Ediciones, 2014)
- Chagas (Editorial Fuga, 2010)
- Adiabática (Ediciones Kultrún, 2009)
- Catabática (Editorial Jabalí, 2008)
Participation in anthologies
- Provinciana n.º 2. Revista de Literatura y pensamiento (University of Valparaiso, 2019)
- Con mi caracol y mi revólver. Muestra de poesía chilena reciente (Vallejo & Co, 2018)
- ¡¡BASTA!! 100 mujeres contra la violencia de género (Editorial Asterion, 2012)
- Küme Dungun/Küme Wirin. Antología Poetas Mujeres Mapuche (LOM Ediciones, 2011)
- Voces para Lilith. Literatura contemporánea de temática lésbica en Sudamérica (ed. by Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Editorial Estruendomudo, 2011)
- Lof sitiado. Homenaje poético al pueblo mapuche de Chile (edited by Jaime Huenún, 2011)
- Escrituras de la memoria, reescritura de La Araucana (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2010)
- Revista Nomadías n°11 (Universidad de Chile, 2009)
- Antología. Concurso de cuentos sobre VIH (SEREMI de Salud, 2004)
- Antología del Primer Concurso de Cuentos Escuela de Medicina (Austral University of Chile, 2003)
- Antología del Décimo Concurso Nacional de Cuentos Fernando Santiván (Corporación Cultural Municipal de Valdivia, 2003)
- Antología poética de mujeres latinoamericanas Voces de luna (Editions Alondras, Canada, 2001)
Awards and nominations
- Santiago Municipal Literature Award, novel category, for Cohyaiqueer, 2019.[1]