HONORARY MEMBERS

Angélica Gorodischer – Author, Argentina
Angélica Gorodischer is the author of fourteen novels and is considered an exceptional short story writer in contemporary Argentine literature. She is the winner of a number of awards, among them: Premio de la Orden (1984), Premio Poblet (1984-85), Premio Emecé (1985), Premio Gilgamesh of Spain (1991-93), Premio Xonex de Platino (1993), and Premio Dignidad, awarded by the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights (1996). Her works have been translated and anthologized extensively in a number of editions. She is presently organizing the conference of Latin American Women Writers in Rosario, Argentina.

Marta Zabaleta – Professor, London
Marta Zabaleta is a senior lecturer in Latin American Studies in the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University in London. She has organized numerous seminars and symposia related to the Latin American woman as well as the study of the feminine presence within the changing social-cultural conditions of our century. Her next symposium will take place in Varsovia in July of 2000.

María Negroni - Poet, writer, Argentina
 Negroni is the author of numerous poetry books, among them: Bellos Delirios (Ed. Museo Mayo, Colombia, 1987), Cage under Cover (Translated by Anne Twitty (Sun and Moon Press); Islandia (Monte Avila Ed., Caracas, 1994); El viaje de la Noche (Ed. Lumen, Barcelona, 1994), and El sueno de Ursula, finalist in the Premio Planeta for novels in 1998. María has received a number of prestigious awards: The Guggenheim and the Rockefeller foundations’awards in the United Sates, and the Maison des Ecrivains Etrangers in France. She is currently a professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

Agustín Nuñez - Director of Theater, Paraguay
He is an architect, a photographer, a set designer, a dramatist, and an actor, as well as a director of theater and television. He has directed more than one hundred theater productions including the world premiere of Yo el Supremo and Hijo de Hombre, both works by Augusto Roa Bastos (Premio Cervantes 1989- Spain). As an art director, he has distinguished himself in the field of cinematography. As dramatist, his works have been performed in Asuncion, Paraguay; Buenos Aires, Argentina and in Pont A Mousson and Avignon, France. Currently he is Director of the Instituto Municipal de Arte at the municipality of Asuncion, and Director of the Centro de Investigacion y Divulgacion Teatral.

Lea Fletcher –  Feminaria's  founder and editor 
Lea Fletcher, American,  Doctor of Letters. She is best known as founder and director of Feminaria (Argentina, 1988 to the present). Feminaria has gathered in its pages the most complex and rigorous critical, social, and literary works about women in developing countries. The lasting power of this publication, the seminars and discussions conducted by Fletcher represent, in many cases, true pioneer efforts in the world of Latin American women writers.

Concha García – Poet, Spain
Concha García was born in La Rambla but has resided most of her life in Barcelona. Included in her many published poetic works are: Por mi no arderan los quicios ni se quemaran las teas (Aula Negra, Universidad de Leon, 1986); Otra Ley (Valencia, Victor Orenga, 1987); Ya nada es rito (de Poesias Barcarola's First Prize, Diputacion de Albacete, 1988); Desden (Madrid, Libertarias-Prodhufi, (1990); Pormenor (Madrid, Libertarias, 1993), and Ayer y calles (Jaime Gil de Biedma's Prize, Madrid, Visor, 1994). Her work also appears in these anthologies: La prueba del nueve (Madrid, Catedra, 1994) and in Ellas tienen la palabra (Madrid, Hiperion, 1997).

Judy B. McInnis – Professor, University of  Delaware

Judy McInnis is associate professor of Comparative Literature and Women Studies at the University of Delaware. She has published several studies in various academic journals about Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Federico García Lorca, Gabriela Mistral, Rosario Castellanos, Octavio Paz, among others. Currently she is preparing a compilation of medieval and critical essays about women’s poetry. Ms McInnis is an accomplished novelist and translator.

Rei Berroa- Professor, George Mason University

Rei Berroa is associate professor of XIX and XX century Spanish literature and culture. He has published numerous critical works on XX century Spanish literature, among them his book: Ideologia y retorica: las prosas de guerra de Miguel Hernandez (Mexico: Ed. Libros de Mexico, 1988). A second volume is in preparation: La imaginacion triangular, which, starting with Garcia Lorca, examines the literary experience throughout the XX century. Many of his articles have been published in Discurso Literario, Texto Crítico, and the Hispanic Journal. Professor Berroa is founder of the journal Mundo: Problemas y Confrontaciones, published in Mexico. He has published several poetry collections, and is academic advisor for George Mason’s journal the Hispanic Review.


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