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Yolanda Blanco
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Yolanda Blanco (born in 1954) is a Nicaraguan poet.
Yolanda Blanco was born in Managua, Nicaragua. She attended the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, in León, between 1970 and 1971. While studying at the university, she organized the first poetry lectures ever, featuring the top Nicaraguan women poets. Blanco went on to study art history and literature in France. During the Seventies, she worked for the creation of a new society in Nicaragua. However, in 1978, she was forced to move to Venezuela when her family's home was unjustifiably invaded by Sandinista officials. Although she was a well known young Nicaraguan poet during the Eighties, Blanco was not paraded by the Sandinista regime because she did not belong to its party. Blanco graduated with a degree in Literature from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. She was a member of "Calicanto", a literary workshop conducted by Venezuelan writer Antonia Palacios, and participated actively in the Venezuelan literary world. In 2005, Blanco won the Mariana Sansón Argüello National Poetry Award—a literary contest organized yearly by the Nicaraguan Association of
Women Writers (ANIDE)—for her book De lo urbano y lo sagrado.
Blanco currently lives in New York City where she works as a translator and practices Taoist arts.
Así cuando la lluvia. Leon, Nicaragua: Editorial Hospicio, 1974
Cerámica sol. León, Nicaragua: Editorial UNAN, 1977
Penqueo en Nicaragua. Managua, Nicaragua: Editorial Unión, 1981
Aposentos. Caracas, Venezuela: Pen Club de Venezuela, 1985
De lo urbano y lo sagrado. Managua, Nicaragua: Ediciones ANIDE, 2005
Yolanda Blanco's poetic writing reveals a route of intimate spaces that intensify the experience of the female apprehension of reality, of Nature, and of language through the articulation of a discourse coinciding with the feminist postulates of the difference. Her poems also represent a testimony of the revolutionary fight that culminated with the triumph of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Nicaragua.
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