Dida Aguirre García

Dida Aguirre García (* 1953 in Pampas , Tayacaja Province , Huancavelica Region , Peru ) is a Peruvian poet who writes in Chanka Quechua and Spanish .

Life

Dida Aguirre completed her licentiate (Licenciatura) in social work at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and a Magister in labor administration at the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and became a professor at the Universidad Daniel Alcides Carrión de Cerro de Pasco .

In 1991 her volume of poetry El canto de los cobres was published in Spanish . She has also published three volumes of poetry in Chanka Quechua with Spanish translation: Arcilla 1989, Jarawi 2000 and Qaparikuy / Grito 2012. Her poems have also appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Pichka harawikuna. Five quechua poets from 1998.

In 1999 she received the National Prize in Poetry in Quechua from the Universidad Federico Villarreal .

Works

Volumes of poetry

• 1989: Arcilla . Edición bilingüe. Lluvia editores.
• 2000: Jarawi . Edición bilingüe, con Prólogo de Manuel Baquerizo. Colección Biblioteca de Cultura Quechua Contemporánea. Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima.
• 2012: Qaparikuy / Grito . Edición bilingüe, runasimi - castellano. Lima: Pakarina ediciones.

anthology

• Julio Noriega Bernuy (ed.), Dida Aguirre, Lily Flores, William Hurtado, Eduardo Ninamango & Porfirio Meneses, 1998: Pichka Harawikuna. Five Quechua Poets . Americas Society, New York.
• Julio Noriega Bernuy (ed.), 1990: Poesía quechua escrita en el Perú . CEP, 1990. Traducción de Julio Noriega Bernuy y William Hurtado de Mendoza.

items

• 2011: El feliz encuentro de dos culturas . En: Roland Forgues (ed.): Hablan las poetas . Editorial San Marco, Colección palabra viva. pp. 203-212.

Web links

• Antonio Melis (University of Siena, Italy): Qaparikuy / Grito de Dida Aguirre García (review) . October 30, 2012.
• Dida Aguirre García: Tuta wayra