About Raquel Chaves
Born 1939. Raquel Chaves is a Paraguayan writer, university teacher and poet.
Raquel Chaves (born 1939) is a Paraguayan poet, journalist, novelist, and educator.
Chaves is a professor of English literature at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. She is a contributor to the SEP (Paraguayan Society of Writers), and a proponent of women's participation in education. In addition to her own writing, Chaves has translated many important authors. Her collection of mythical mini-poems Espacio Sagrado (Sacred Space, 1988) cover a male pilgrim's wanderings through the sky and across the earth, as he experiences dreams, symbols and confined spaces before finally arriving at the Sacred Space.
Other works of Chaves include Tierra Sin Males (Land without Evil, 1977), Todo es del Viento (All is of the Wind, 1980), Siete Viajes (Seven Voyages, 1984) and Partes del Todo (Parts of the Whole, 2000).
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Who is Raquel Chaves?
Paraguayan writer
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Raquel Chaves was born in 1939 in Asunción.
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Raquel Chaves is a writer, university teacher and poet.
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Raquel Chaves is Paraguayan.
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