Yolanda Pantin

Yolanda Pantin (born 1954) is a Venezuelan author who has mainly written poetry, although she has also worked in children's literature.

Early life and education Born in Caracas, the eldest of eleven siblings, she spent her childhood in Turmero, Aragua. There, she studied arts at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas (renamed, Escuela de Artes Visuales Rafael Monasterios). In 1974, she returned to Caracas to study literature at Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB).

Career Pantin, who is included in the literary generation of 1978, founded that year the university group "Rastros". Her first texts appeared in the magazine, which she herself illustrated. The following year, she won an honorable mention in the Francisco Lazo Martí award with Casa o lobo, her first collection of poems, which would be published in 1981 by Monte Ávila Editores.

In 1979, she joined the literary workshop "Calicanto", directed by the writer Antonia Palacios, where she rubbed shoulders with various writers of her generation. In 1981, she left Calicanto and co-founded , which broke with and questioned the nocturnal poetic approaches that prevailed in Venezuela at that time. Tráfico published a literary manifesto that criticized the poetic canons they considered outdated, which had a wide repercussion and promoted aesthetic renovation.

In 1986, the awarded Pantin a creative scholarship to promote her literary projects. She also worked as a cultural journalist for the weekly Número and as co-editor of Qué Pasa. In 1989, she was one of the founders of the publishing house Pequeña Venecia, which publishes poetry. In 1990, with Santos López, she created the "Casa de la Poesía Foundation".

Pantin has been invited to book fairs and poetry festivals including the First Poetry Biennial (1991) in Val-de-Marne, France, Fond of photography, Pantin participated in the Dedicatorias exhibition held at the Fundación La Poeteca in 2019. There, a selection of images she took in 2008 while making the Trans-Siberian route could be seen.

Awards and honours 1979, Honorable Mention, Francisco Lazo Martí National Poetry Prize, for Casa o lobo 1982, Honorable Mention, José Rafael Pocaterra Poetry Biennial, for Correo del corazón 1989, Fundarte Award, for Poemas del escritor 1994, List of Honor, International Board on Books for Young People, for Ratón y Vampiro se conocen 2000, Best Book of the Year Award, children's book category, Centro Nacional del Libro de Venezuela, for ¡Splash! 2003, Residency at the Bellagio Study Center of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Roberto Celli Memorial Fund scholarship to carry out with Ana Teresa Torres the research project which allowed them to publish, as co-editors, El hilo de la voz. Antología crítica de escritoras venezolanas del siglo XX (Fundación Polar, 2003) 2004, Guggenheim Fellowship 2015, Poets of the Latin World Victor Sandoval Award, for her work, Seminar of Mexican Culture and UNAM Selected for the anthology Il fiore della poesia latinoamericana d'oggi, volume 2, America meridionale - I 2017, XVII Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana, for Lo que hace el tiempo 2020, XVII for her literary career

Selected works

Poems Casa o lobo, colección Los Espacios Cálidos, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas, 1981 (Ciencuentena de Cincuentena, 2002) Correo del corazón, Fundación para la Cultura y las Artes del Distrito Federal (Fundarte), Caracas, 1985 El cielo de París, Fondo Editorial Pequeña Venecia, Caracas; 1989 Poemas del escritor, Fundarte, Caracas, 1989 La canción fría, Editorial Angria, Caracas, 1989 Paya (Una elegía), Colecciones Clandestinas, Caracas, 1990 Los bajos sentimientos, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas, 1993 La quietud, Pequeña Venecia, Caracas, 1998 El hueso pélvico, Grupo Editorial Eclepsidra, Caracas, 2002 La épica del padre, La Nave Va, Caracas, 2002 Poemas huérfanos, La Liebre Libre, Maracay, 2002 País, Fundación Bigott, Caracas, 2007; Frailejón Editores, Bogotá, 2021 21 caballos, editorial La Cámara Escrita, Caracas, 2011 Bellas ficciones, Eclepsidra, Caracas, 2016 Lo que hace el tiempo, Visor editorial, Madrid, 2017 El dragón protegido, Editorial Pre-Textos, Valencia, 2021

Poetry collections/anthologies Poemas del escritor / El cielo de París, dos poemarios, Fundarte / Alcaldía del Municipio Libertador, Caracas, 1991 Enemiga mía. Selección poética (1981-1997), Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, Madrid, 1998 Poesía reunida 1981-2002, Otero Ediciones, Caracas, 2004 Herencia. Selección poética (1981-2004), colección Atlántica, Ediciones Idea, Canarias, 2005 País. Poesía reunida (1981-2011), Editorial Pre-Textos, Valencia, 2014 El ciervo, antología, compilación de Néstor Mendoza; El Taller Blanco Ediciones, Bogotá, 2019

Children's and youth literature Ratón y Vampiro se conocen, Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas, 1991 Ratón y Vampiro en el castillo, illustrated by Marcela Cabrera; Monte Ávila Editores, 1998 ¡Splash!, illustrated by Rosana Faría, Playco Editores, Caracas, 2000 Un caballo en la ciudad, illustrated with photographs by Rosa Virginia Urdaneta, Playco Editores, Caracas, 2002 Ratón y Vampiro, illustrated by Jefferson Quintana, Lugar Común, 2012 Era un tren de noche, illustrated by the same author, Cyls Editores, Caracas, 2018

Non-fiction Quién dijo Kartofel?, with Blanca Strepponi, Magenta Ediciones, Caracas, 2006 Marie Curie, biografía, Los Libros de El Nacional, Caracas, 2005 Nelson Mandela, Los Libros de El Nacional, Caracas, 2006 Viaje al poscomunismo, with Ana Teresa Torres, Eclepsidra, Caracas, 2020.

Theatre La otredad y el vampiro, Fundarte, Alcaldía de Caracas, 1994