Ida Vitale

Ida Vitale (born 2 November 1923) is a Uruguayan poet, translator, essayist, lecturer and literary critic.

Life

She played an important role in the Uruguayan art movement known as the 'Generation of 45': Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama (who also became her second husband), Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Líber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others.

Vitale fled to Mexico City in 1973 for political asylum after a military junta took power in Uruguay. She resided in Austin, Texas Vitale is the last surviving member of the Generation of 45. She is the recipient of multiple literary prizes and honors for the literary texts she has published. In 2019 she was awarded a Cervantes prize for her lifetime achievement.

Vitale turned 100 in November 2023.

Prizes and honors 2019, One of the BBC's 100 women 2018, Miguel de Cervantes Prize 2017, Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo 2016, Premio Internacional de Poesía Federico García Lorca 2015, Premio Reina Sofía de poesía Iberoamericana 2014, Alfonso Reyes Prize 2010, Honorary Doctor of Letters (Doctor Honoris Causa) degree from la Universidad de la República de Uruguay. 2009, Premio Octavio Paz.

Partial bibliography — (1953). Palabra dada. Montevideo: La Galatea. OCLC 9317153 — (1960). Cada uno en su noche, poesía. Montevideo: Editorial Alfa. OCLC 4941102 — (1968). La poesía de los años veinte. Montevideo, Uruguay: Centro Editor de América Latina. OCLC 684036 — (1968). Fermentario Carlos Vaz Ferreira. Montevideo: Centro Editor de America Latina. OCLC 79919537 — (1972). Oidor andante. [Montevideo]: Arca. OCLC 1399898 — (1982). Fieles. Colección Cuadernos de poesía. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. — (1984). Entresaca. México: Editoral Oasis. OCLC 60657853 — (1988). Sueños de la constancia. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica. — (1992). Serie del sinsonte. Montevideo?: P.F.E. OCLC 47765264 — (1994). Léxico de afinidades. México, D.F.: Editorial Vuelta. — (1996). Donde vuela el camaleón. [Montevideo, Uruguay]: Vintén Editor. — (1998). Procura de lo imposible. México: Fondo de cultura económica. — (1998). De varia empresa. Caracas, Venezuela: Fondo Editorial Pequeña Venecia. — & Sosa, V. (1998). Ida Vitale. Material de lectura, 196. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de difusión Cultural, Dirección de Literatura. — (1999). Un invierno equivocado. México, D.F.: CIDCLI. — (1999). La luz de esta memoria. Montevideo: La Galatea. — (2002). Reducción del infinito. Barcelona: Tusquets Editores. — (2003). De plantas y animales: acercamientos literarios. Paidós Amateurs, 10. México: Paidós. — (2004). El abc de byobu. Ciudad de México: Taller Ditoria. — (2005). Trema. Colección La Cruz del sur, 767. Valencia: Editorial Pre-Textos. —, Pollack, S., & Vitale, I. (2007). Reason enough. Austin, TX: Host Publications. -, Vitale, I. (2020) "Fortune" trans. Tanya Huntingdon, in The Women Writers Handbook. London: Aurora Metro Books. — (2023). Time Without Keys: Selected Poems. Translated by Sarah Pollack. New York: New Directions.

External resources Ida Vitale recorded for the Archive of Literature of the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on September 12, 1986. Ms. Vitale reads the following works from her anthology, Fieles: "Palabra dada", "Cada uno en su noche", "Oidor andante", "Jardín de sílice", "Hora nona", "Se noi siamo figure di specchio", and "Sueños de la constancia".