Juan Gelman

About The Author

One of Latin America’s most distinguished and influential contemporary poets, Juan Gelman (1930–2014) is the author of more than two dozen collections of poetry and an assortment of essay volumes. A vocal, transformative human-rights activist, he is the recipient of Argentina’s National Literature Prize and Spain’s Premio Cervantes, the most prestigious award in the Spanish language.

Books by Juan Gelman

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Ladino Poems

By Juan Gelman
Edited by Ilan Stavans
One of Latin American’s most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930–2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. Gelman was a child of Yiddish-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, and a significant, seldom recognized portion of his poetry de...
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