Natalia Krivoshein de Canese

Natalia Krivoshein de Canese (7 May 1926 – 14 August 2019) was a Paraguayan philologist, an expert in the Guarani language.

Biography Natalia Krivoshein was born in Prague to a Russian family of and Nina Lomshakova. She was brought to Argentina when she was three years old. Her father was an engineer. In 1930, by the invitation of Juan Belaieff he came to Paraguay and was among the founders of the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. (At that time it was called Faculty of Physics and Mathematics).

At the age of 40 she graduated from the Guaraní Linguistics Institute .

She married (Arquímedes Canese), Paraguaian microbiologist. They had a daughter Marta Canese Krivoshein, (artist, born 1953 ), and sons: poet and author , (Paraguayan politician, M.P. ), Juan Carlos, Miguel Angel, and Andrés (Andrés Pedro Canese Krisvoshein, microbiologist).

Books 1983: Gramática de la lengua guaraní 1987: El espanõl del Paraguay en contacto con el guaraní (with Graziella Corvalán) 2015: [Guarani Language for Use in Medicine] (with Gino Canese) Together with Feliciano Acosta Alcatraz: 1990: Ñe'ẽryru. diccionario guaraní-español 1994: [Life of Ka'i] (collection of Paraguaian myths) 1994: [Adventures of Ka'i] (collection of Paraguaian myths) 1996: (collection of Paraguaian myths) 1999: (collection of Paraguaian myths) 2005: (as editors) , collection of Guarani poetry