Rosabetty Muñoz

Rosabetty Muñoz
Born Rosa Betty Muñoz Serón
(1960-09-09) 9 September 1960
Ancud, Chile
Alma mater Austral University of Chile
Occupation Poet, professor
Years active 1981 – present
Spouse(s) Juan Domingo Galleguillos Herrera
Awards

Rosa Betty Muñoz Serón (born 9 September 1960) is a Chilean poet and professor[1] who is linked to the cultural movements Chaicura from Ancud,[2] Aumen from Castro,[3] and Índice and Matra from Valdivia.[4]

Biography

Rosabetty Muñoz grew up in Ancud, and took her first steps as a poet in the Chaicura Group, directed by Mario Contreras Vega.[2] She is a professor of Spanish at the Austral University of Chile.

She published her first book of poems, Canto de una oveja del rebaño, in 1981 as a university student in Valdivia. She also wrote most of her second book in that city, En lugar de morir, which was released in 1987. Her third book, Hijos (1991), was written, as she says, "after a black period [...], in which I thought the well of my poetry had run dry."[5]

According to Iván Carrasco's description of ethnocultural discourse in Chilean poetry,[6] whose authors include Rosabetty Muñoz, in her poetic production there is a sustained appreciation of the presence of syncretism between Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, observing a high intercultural and interethnic content (ethnocultural poetry).[7] Furthermore, while some authors classify her within a group of writers assigned to the poetry of Southern Chile,[8][9] Carrasco – referring to Hijos (1991) and Baile de señoritas (1994) – frames her work within the modern poetry of Chiloé, whose representatives use "a Spanish-Chilliche-Chono[lower-alpha 1] intercultural lexicon and a high degree of awareness of poetic movements."[4]

On her poetry – "which is characterized by reflecting southern Chile, dealing with gender issues and human relations and making poetry 'a space of resistance'"[11] – Sergio Mansilla Torres has said: "In her verses, and closely following Vallejo, she expresses the vastness and depth of human pain, but lived and seen from the ontological condition of woman constituted in the cultural space of Chiloé previous or parallel to capitalist modernity", and "Her language, in simple appearance, almost minimalist, is actually very complex because of the metaphysical dimension it contains, that makes her poetry a kind of prayer or song that always moves toward recollection."[12]

Rosabetty Muñoz has received several awards, among which are the 2000 Pablo Neruda Award for her work as a whole,[13] and the National Book Council Award for Sombras en El Rosselot (2002) as the best unpublished work.[11] In addition, she was nominated in the literary arts category, poetry mention of the 2009 Altazor Award for National Arts for En Nombre de Ninguna, referred to as a "remarkable contribution to world literature (...) [and] a deep and painful poetic entry in one of the many torn sides of the body of Chile,"[14] while in the 2012 edition, she won the award for Polvo de huesos.[12]

She is married to the teacher and director of the Polivalente de Quemchi high school, Juan Galleguillos, with whom she has a daughter and two sons.

Awards and recognitions

  • First Prize in the 1982 Austral University of Chile Contest
  • Third Place and First Mention in the 1985 Apollinaire Contest of Federico Santa María University
  • Honorable Mention for the 1992 Santiago Municipal Literature Award for Hijos
  • Honorable Mention for the 1996 Pablo Neruda Award
  • 1998 Entel Award for Best Regional Writer
  • Honorable Mention for the 1998 Santiago Municipal Poetry Award for La santa, historia de una su elevación
  • 2000 Pablo Neruda Award for the whole of her work[13]
  • 2002 National Book Council Award of Chile, best unpublished work, for Sombras en El Rosselot
  • Finalist for the 2009 Altazor Award for En nombre de ninguna[14]
  • 2012 Los Lagos Regional Prize of Art and Culture
  • 2013 Altazor Award for Polvo de huesos[12]

Works

  • Canto de una oveja del rebaño, El Kultrún, Valdivia, 1981 (2nd ed.: Ariel, Santiago, 1994)
  • En lugar de morir, editorial Cambio, 1987
  • Hijos, El Kultrún, Valdivia, 1991
  • Baile de señoritas, El Kultrún, Valdivia, 1994
  • La santa, historia de una su elevación, LOM, Santiago, 1998
  • Sombras en El Rosselot, LOM, Santiago, 2002
  • Ratada, LOM, Santiago, 2005
  • En nombre de ninguna, El Kultrún, Valdivia, 2008
  • Polvo de huesos, anthology edited by Kurt Folch; Ediciones Tácitas, Santiago, 2012

Notes

  1. ↑ "Chilliche" is an archaism that alludes to "the people of Chile", to those who speak Mapuche.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Rosabetty Muñoz". Revista Colectivo Diciembre/Diciembre (in Spanish). Vol. 1 no. 1. p. 10. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via issuu.
  2. 1 2 Gac-Artigas, Priscilla, ed. (2002). Reflexiones: Angélica Gorodischer (in Spanish). Ediciones Nuevo Espacio. p. 125. ISBN 9781930879348. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Ariz Castillo, Yenny (2005). "La loba y la luciérnaga. La heterogeneidad del discurso poético de Rosabetty Muñoz y Sonia Caicheo" [The Wolf and the Firefly. The Heterogeneity of the Poetic Discource of Rosabetty Muñoz and Sonia Caicheo]. Acta Literaria (in Spanish) (31): 63–82. doi:10.4067/S0717-68482005000200006. ISSN 0717-6848. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  4. 1 2 Carrasco, Iván (2006). "Ratada de Rosabetty Muñoz: Metáforas de un tiempo cruel" [Ratada by Rosabetty Muñoz: Metaphors of a Cruel Time]. Revista Chilena de Literatura (in Spanish) (69): 45–67. doi:10.4067/S0718-22952006000200003. ISSN 0718-2295. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  5. ↑ Muñoz, Rosabetty (Winter 1997). "Acallo la loba que contengo" [I Silence the Wolf That I Contain] (in Spanish). University of Chile. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Carrasco, Iván (2005). "Literatura intercultural chilena: proyectos actuales" [Chilean Intercultural Literature: Current Projects]. Revista Chilena de Literatura (in Spanish) (66): 63–84. doi:10.4067/S0718-22952005000100004. ISSN 0718-2295. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Carrasco, Iván (April 1991). "Textos poéticos chilenos de doble registro" [Chilean Double-Entry Poetic Texts]. Revista Chilena de Literatura (in Spanish) (37): 113–122. ISSN 0718-2295. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Galindo, Oscar; Miralles Ovando, David (January 1993). Poetas actuales del sur de chile [Current Poets of the South of Chile] (in Spanish). Paginadura. ISBN 9789567327010. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via ResearchGate.
  9. ↑ Pérez, M. (2011). "Rosabetty Muñoz: entre el agua y la furia" [Rosabetty Muñoz: Between Water and Fury] (PDF). América sin nombre (in Spanish) (16): 113–120. ISSN 1577-3442. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  10. ↑ Amunátegui Aldunate, Miguel Luis. Apuntaciones lexicográficas (in Spanish). II. Imprenta y Litografía Barcelona. p. 68. Retrieved 30 January 2018 – via archive.org.
  11. 1 2 "Cristián Warnken y Rosabetty Muñoz invitan a reflexionar sobre el estado actual de la narrativa chilena" [Cristián Warnken and Rosabetty Muñoz Invite Us to Reflect on the Current State of Chilean Narrative]. La Tercera (in Spanish). 22 September 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  12. 1 2 3 "Rosabetty Muñoz" (in Spanish). Altazor Award. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  13. 1 2 "Premios" [Awards] (in Spanish). Pablo Neruda Foundation. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  14. 1 2 "Rosabetty Muñoz" (in Spanish). Altazor Award. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
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