Susana Rotker
Susana Rotker | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 July 1954 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | 27 November 2000 (aged 46) Piscataway, New Jersey, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
| Spouse | Tomás Eloy Martínez |
| Awards | Casa de las Américas Prize (1991) |
Susana Rotker (3 July 1954 – 27 November 2000) was a Venezuelan journalist, columnist, essayist, and writer.[1]
Biography
[edit]The daughter of Jewish immigrants, Susana Rotker graduated from Andrés Bello National 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
[edit]- 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, 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b c "Susana Rotker" (in Spanish). Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Murió la escritora Susana Rotker" [The Writer Susana Rotker Dies]. La Nación (in Spanish). 29 November 2000. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Tulchin, Joseph S. (December 1997). "Introduction" (PDF). Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: 3. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
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Further reading
[edit]- Martínez, Tomás Eloy (22 December 2000). "En memoria de Susana Rotker". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- 1954 births
- 2000 deaths
- 20th-century Venezuelan women writers
- Andrés Bello National University alumni
- Venezuelan film critics
- Road incident deaths in New Jersey
- Rutgers University faculty
- Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- Venezuelan educators
- Venezuelan essayists
- Venezuelan expatriates in the United States
- Venezuelan Jews
- Venezuelan women journalists
- Venezuelan women essayists
- Women film critics
- Writers from Caracas
- People from Highland Park, New Jersey
- 20th-century essayists
- Venezuelan women educators