- Wendy Guerra
Infobox Artist
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name = Wendy Guerra
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caption = Wendy Guerra
birthdate = 1955
location =Cuba ,Cienfuegos
nationality = Cuban
movement =Novel
Influenced by =Anaïs Nin
works =Todos se van History
Wendy Guerra was born in 1970. She published two poems: "Platea a oscura" in 1987 and "Cabeza rapada" in 1996. Guerra’s perception of writing is very personal; she works with life and with history. It’s the country – Cuba - she was born in that inspires her.
In 1970, the year that Guerra was born, her family moved from a small village to
Cienfuegos , on Cuba's southern coast. Guerra first collection, Platea a oscuras, won her a prize from the University of Havana when she was barely 17. She then took a degree in film making at Havana’sInstituto Superior de Arte . She kept writing diary. Guerra’s diaries formed the basis for her first novel, Todos Se Van (They All Leave), which was published in 2006. Following its young protagonist through childhood and adolescence inCuba .Wendy Guerra’s source of inspiration was
Anaïs Nin , the legendary diarist.Poems
Platea a oscura, 1987 Cabeza rapada, 1996
Novels
Todos se van (They All Leave), Barcelona: Bruguera, 2006. First Bruguera prize in 2006.
External links
*http://www.criticasmagazine.com/article/CA6371850.html
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1817288/
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