Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1930, Buenos Aires, Argentina — 2014, Mexico City, Mexico
Argentina · Mexico
Juan Gelman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
Juan Gelman was an Argentine poet, one of the major Latin American poets of his generation, winner of the Cervantes Prize (2007), whose politically engaged and grief-laden verse was marked by the disappearance of his son and daughter-in-law under the military dictatorship. He spent years in exile, largely in Mexico. Born in Buenos Aires to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant parents, he was Jewish.
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Poet / lyricist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Poets & Lyricists
