Juan Gelman
Argentine poet whose verse moved from political commitment to private grief after his son was killed by the military dictatorship. He won the Cervantes Prize; his search for his missing grandchild became an international human rights cause.
Works
- Violin y Otras CuestionesPoetry collection examining identity, loss, and political violence in Argentina
- GotánPoetry collection evoking Buenos Aires tango culture and urban melancholy
- Los Poemas de Sidney West
- Bajo la Lluvia AjenaPoetry collection about diaspora and exile written during author's displacement
- Mundar