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Gisela Kozak Rovero
Kozak at the 2013 Baruta's Book Festival.
BornOctober 20, 1963
Venezuela Caracas, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan
Alma materUniversidad Central de Venezuela
Occupation(s)Writer, essayist, teacher and researcher

Gisela Kozak Rovero (20 October 1963) is a Venezuelan writer, essayist, teacher and researcher.[1]

Education and career

Kozak started writing when she was eight years old, as a game, imitating other authors such as Oscar Wilde and the Brothers Grimm. She graduated in literature from the Central University of Venezuela and afterwards obtained a PhD in the Simón Bolívar University.[2]

She has worked as a cultural policies advisor, as a consultant* for both public and private organizations in Venezuela and as collaborator with the Spanish Cooperation Agency and the Goethe-Institut in the formation of cultural managers. She has also engaged in political activism and organized essay and narration workshops in the Literature School, as well as in the ICREA.[3]

Kosak has also been an invited faculty for the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Dominican Republic, and as a lecturer for several universities.[3]

Publications

  • 1993 Rebelión en el Caribe hispánicoː urbes e historias más allá del boom y la posmodernidad (Caracas, Ediciones La Casa de Bello) (essay)
  • 1997 Pecados de la capital y otras historias (story)
  • 1998 La catástrofe imaginaríaː cultura, saber, tecnología, instituciones (Caracas, Planeta-Celarg)(essay)
  • 1999 Rapsodia (novel)
  • 2003 Vida de machos (novel)
  • 2006 Latidos de Caracas (Caracas: Alfaguara) (novel)
  • 2007 Venezuela, el país que siempre naceː literatura, política y pasión de historia (Caracas: Alfadil) (essay)
  • 2011 En rojo, narración coral (Caracas: Alfa) (stories)
  • 2011 Todas las lunas (Caracas: Equinoccio) (novel)[4]
  • 2012 Literatura asediada: revoluciones políticas, culturales y sociales (investigation)
  • 2014 Ni tan chéveres ni tan iguales. El «cheverismo» venezolano y otras formas del disimulo (essay)
  • 2017 Siete sellos: crónicas de la Venezuela Revolucionaria (compiler)

Kozak has also published several articles in national and international specialized magazines, compilations and congresses memories.[5]

Awards and recognitions

  • 1997 Premio Armas Alfonzo por Pecados de la capital Biennial Award
  • 1999 DAAD Intern in Germany
  • 1999 Miguel Otero Silva Award Finalist (Editorial Planeta, for Latidos de Caracas)
  • 2003 SACVEN Story Contest finalist (for Vida de machos)
  • 2006 Enrique Bernardo Nuñez Essay Bienniel honorary mention Valencia Athenaeum (for Venezuela, el país que siempre naceː literatura, política y pasión de historia)
  • 2009 Sylvia Molloy Award to the best academic article about gender and sexuality, awarded by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA, USA-Canada, for the article «El lesbianismo en Venezuela es asunto de pocas páginas»)
  • 2012 Critic Award finalist (for the novel Todas las lunas)

Personal life

Kozak is openly lesbian.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ Parra, José Antonio (2002). "«Gisela Kozak Rovero. Hacia una estética de lo efímero»". Reflexiones: Angélica Gorodischer, Vol. 2. New Jersey: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio. p. 71-77. ISBN 1-930879-34-2.
  2. ^ Chacon, Imma; Izaguirre, Marian (coord.) (2009). "Gisela Kozak Rovero". 15 x 15 mujeres que cuentan en el siglo XXI. Maia. ISBN 9788492724079.
  3. ^ a b "Curriculum" (in European Spanish). Gisela Kozak Rovero. 24 June 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Gisela Kozak hace de la narrativa transgenérica su propia aventura". El Nacional. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  5. ^ Fundación Dialnet (ed.). "Gisela Kozak Rovero. Artículos de revista". Dialnet. Dialnet. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  6. ^ Sánchez, Matilde (7 May 2021). "G. Kozak: Venezuela, el país sin libros". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Soy lesbiana. Punto". Radio Reflejos. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Lesbianas visibles e invencibles". Literal Magazine. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
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