Wafi Salih

The young Wafi Salih in her university training stage, had already published "Adagio", her first book.

Wafi Salih (born 5 June 1965 in Trujillo) is a Venezuelan-born writer of Lebanese descent. Writer of: poetry, short stories, essays, dramaturgy and film scripts. She is recognized as “the master of short poetry in Venezuela” for her extensive exploration of haiku poetry, a literary genre of Japanese origin. Her books has been translated into English, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.

Biography Magister in Latin American Literature, graduated from the “Universidad de los Andes”. She has a doctoral project in History and twenty books published in several genres. She was founder of “José Antonio Ramos Sucre” a literary workshop for seven consecutive years, which contributed to the training of Venezuelan artists and researchers.

Her thesis about female gender, is an innovative proposal about feminism. A profuse reflection that opens a question about the modes of cultural production and its effects on the social being. This research was published in Monte Ávila Editores in 2007 under the name: “The images of the absent”.