Cristina Peri Rossi

Cristina Peri Rossi was born on 12 November 1941 in Montevideo; she bears the name of her mother, a schoolteacher, who gave her an early taste for books. A graduate in comparative literature, she obtained a chair as a professor of literature at a very young age. In 1972, the dictatorship banned her books and even her name in the press; she went into exile in Barcelona, had to move to Paris in 1974, pursued by the Francoist regime, then returned to Spain, whose nationality she took in 1975. A journalist and translator, she received the Cervantes Prize in 2021.

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• NovelThe Ship of FoolsLa nave de los locosCristina Peri Rossi · 1984Literature