Elsa Wiezell

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name = Elsa Wiezell

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birthname = Elsa Wiezell Apezteguía
birthdate = November 19 1926
location = Asunción, Paraguay
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nationality = Paraguayan
field = Poetry, Painting
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works = Puente sobre el Río Tepecué (Bridge Over the Tapecué River)Temblor de Acacias (Tremor of Acacias)
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awards = "García Lorca" Prize given by "Amigos del Arte" (Friends of Art)Honorary Citizen from the State of Texas, USABest Spanish-American Lyrics. Gebers, Sweden

Elsa Wiezell (born November 19, 1926) is a Paraguayan poet and teacher. Her work also includes paintings that reside in art galleries and cultural centers of Asuncion. She was born in Asuncion, Paraguay, daughter of Julia Apezteguía and Rubén Wiezell, of Swedish descent.

Childhood and youth

She spent her childhood surrounded by her family, playing games and pranks with her siblings Genoveva and Nills in the once quiet streets of Zeballos Cué. They moved later and definitively to Asunción. She completed her primary studies in Asuncion at the International School.

In her youth, her inclination towards poetry was evident, and she began her her first literary works at that time. Sntranced in her thoughts, she always searched for places of self-discovery. This took her to the college studies at the National University of Asuncion, where she finished her studies with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and literature in 1950.

Career

After graduating, she taught Secondary Level psychology courses at the Benjamin Aceval School in Asunción. She was also in charge of the psychology class at the University of Columbia.

Committed to the diffusion of arts and culture within Paraguay, she founded such institutions as the Modern Art Museum, the journal "The Feminist" (for which she was chief editor), and the Belle Arts School, serving as director from 1965 to 1977.

Publications

Her prolific literary output has positioned her as one of the most active people in the artistic and cultural area of Asunción with more than four decades of unceasing poetic labor.

Awards

In her career, Wiezell has been rewarded many times in her own country and abroad. Many scholars study her work, including Charles Carlisle (Professor of Spanish Literature at Southwest Texas University in Texas, USA) and Norma Suiffet (Professor of Literature at Institute of Superior Studies in Uruguay and Specialist in Spanish Philosophy at the University of Salamanca, Spain).

Style

In her work can be perceived a placid poetic style. Her loose verses give the sensation of peaceful freedom and smooth movement. Her style is rich in literary language.

The inspiration and subjects of her works are almost tangible. Water is a recurrent subject, and she also refers to loneliness and to the dreams that usually clash with a reality manifested, for example, as "painfull destiny of the body at the earth...". Carlos Sabat Ercasty has written, "The work of Elsa Wiezell is beautiful and dignified, predetermined by a noble double heroism, marching high and sustaining flight..."Fact|date=October 2008

Family

She is married to Vicente Ferrer Espínola, with three children: Lourdes, Armando and Patricia.

References

*Wiezel, Elsa "Tren del agua" ("Train of the Water"). Imprenta Salesiana. 1996. Asuncion.
* EVP - Wikipedia
* [http://www.evp.edu.py/index.php?title=Portada Enciclopedia Virtual Paraguaya - Portal]

External links

* [http://www.los-poetas.com/poetas/herib.htm Los Poetas]
* [http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=3114 El Poder De La Palabra]