Susana Rotker

Susana Rotker (3 July 1954 – 27 November 2000) was a Venezuelan journalist, columnist, essayist, and writer.

Biography The daughter of Jewish immigrants, Susana Rotker graduated from Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas in 1975, was an assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires, and received a doctorate in Hispanic literature from the University of Maryland in 1989.

Around 1979, she met the Argentine intellectual Tomás Eloy Martínez exiled in Venezuela, with whom she had a daughter Sol Ana in 1986, and with whom she lived until the traffic accident that cost Rotker her life in 2000. Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America, Rutgers University Press, Captive Women: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 236 pp.,

Awards In 1991 she received the Casa de las Américas Prize for her work La invención de la crónica about José Martí.