Bella Clara Ventura

Bella Clara Ventura
Born	1947 (age 77–78) Bogotá, Colombia
Citizenship	Israel
Occupation(s)	Film director screenwriter film producer novelist poet
Years active	1970s-present
Website	bellaclaraventura.com

Bella Clara Ventura is a Colombian-Mexican director, screenwriter, producer, novelist, and poet who currently lives in Israel. ^[1]

Life

Ventura was born in 1947 in Bogota, Colombia to Jewish parents. She went on to study in Paris, France and currently resides in Israel. ^[1]

Career

Ventura was a director, screenwriter and film producer for 10 years, receiving awards for her productions. She is considered one of the pioneers of cinema in the 70s in Colombia, along with Ciro Duran, Mario Ventura Mitrotti, and Joyce. For 25 years, she has devoted herself to literature.

She has been invited to literary events in United States, Sweden, France, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Spain, Puerto Rico, Mexico, India, Hungary, and Israel. He has also been invited to give lectures around the world, most recently in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico in 2015. She is currently writing a new novel "Flight of Love "and new poems in conjunction with Ernesto Kahan.

Bella Clara Ventura writes articles for various news media, radio program director, and yoga teacher what Machado says that "only makes walking."

Published works

Poems

• "Afrodita en el alma", 2024 ^[2]
• "Antología de poetas latinoamericanos. Comarca sin fronteras II", 2003 ^[3]
• "Antología poética de Bella Clara Ventura", 2019 ^[4]
• "Bienhadadas", 2019 ^[5]
• "Carrousel d’émotions", 2022 ^[6]
• "Cœur en oasis", 2019 ^[7]
• "El milagro de la palabra", 2021 ^[8]
• "Hechizos de bosque", 2001 ^[9]
• "Liberté, hôtesse du coeur", 2012 ^[10]
• "Diáspora y asombro", 1995 ^[11]
• "La voz de la valija", 2024 ^[12]
• "A lo lejos" 2002 ^[13]
• "Huésped de la luz" 2004 ^[14]
• "Magias y retablos" 2004 ^[15]
• "Mujer de lunas y soles", ^[16]
• "Niña de adentro" 2004 ^[17]
• "Atisbos de luz" 2007 ^[18]
• "Oasis de un despertar", 2008 ^[19]
• "Árboles de leche y miel", 2009 ^[20]
• "Eros en Canto" (Editorial Oveja Negra and Casa del Poeta Peruano 2010) ^[21]
• "Orfandades", ^[22]
• "Palpitations", ^[23]
• "Passion en Arc-en-ciel", 2022 ^[24]
• "Paz sicaria de la lágrima" (Editorial Oveja Negra and Alejo editores Perú 2011) ^[25]
• "Semence de l’absence",2016 ^[26]
• "Tsunami de feu", 2024 ^[27]
• "Cinquante-cinq jours sans toi", Editions du Cygne, 2015 ^[28]
• Beings of Light in as new process about to be released in Madrid poems. ^[29]

In the poems "Beings of Light" published in Chile and soon poetry anthology Bella Clara Ventura out in Madrid published by Ediciones Editorial Lord Byron in 2016. The story is not alien, has over 20 anthologized and translated in several parts of the world, with wide recognition and awards outlined below.

Novels

• África en la sangre (Lord Byron Editions 2014), with the Editorial Mundibook - Madrid;. ^[30]
• Almamocha, 1993. ^[31]
• Almas de papel, 2022 ^[32]
• Corazón en telaraña, 2018 ^[33]
• Lo que la Vida Quiera, 2000. ^[34]
• El Viento de la Sombra, 2003. ^[35]
  • recognized as a best seller in the Miami Herald
• Armando fuego, 2014. ^[36]
• La voz de la pasión, 2012 ^[37]
• La sed del tiempo, 2024 ^[38]
• Las tres gracias, 2023 ^[39]
• Nace sana, 2024 ^[40]
• El amor en los tiempos del coronavirus, 2020. ^[41]
• Contigo aprendí, 2007 Editores Spain Lord Byron ^[42]
• Trees of Milk and Honey (2009)
• Rehén de la memoria (novel) Editorial Oveja Negra, December. 2009 ^[43]
• La voz de la violencia (editorial Black Sheep, and Alejo Editions Peru novel 2011) ^[44]
• Canadá para siempre, 2015. ^[45]
• Un hombre milenario, 2022 ^[46]

Biography

• Escritura de luz: Vida y obra de Bella Clara Ventura, 2021 ^[47]

Positions

• Vice President of Organización Mundial de Trovadores- O.M.T.- Israel.
• Ambassador of the peace organization based in Geneva. ^[48]
• Embrace group representative Uruguay Brazil.
• Former ambassador of Poets of the World.
• IFLAC former ambassador to Colombia (Agency peace in art and literature).
• Delegate of the Society of French Poets.
• Honorary president of the Hispano-American Union of Letters (UHE). ^[1]
• Representative of the House of Peruvian Poets.
• Vocal Pen Colombia.
• Chosen as one of the top 50 women of Culture (Saint Thomas Aquinas University, Bogotá) 2008.

Awards

• First Poem Award Guadalquivir, (Spain, 2011)
• First prize El Rosal, (mother poem, University of Miami, 2011)
• First place in Dios Mío Contest, (Israel, 2011). ^[1]
• First prize in Wings of Poetry, (Chile, 2012). ^[1]
• Rosetta Poetry Prize, (Turkey, 2013). ^[1]
• Honorary Doctorate of the World Academy of Culture and Arts (USA, 2011)
• And a special thanks to the work (Israel, 2015).

References

1. Sadow, Stephen A., ed. (15 April 2024). I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America. Ilan Stavans (contributor). University of New Mexico Press. p. 162. ISBN   9780826366399.
2. "Afrodita en el alma". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
3. "Antología de Poetas Latinoamericanos. Comarca sin fronteras II". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
4. "Nuevos libros Otoño-Invierno 2019-2020, publicados por Lord Byron Ediciones". Nuevos libros Otoño-Invierno 2019-2020, publicados por Lord Byron Ediciones. Retrieved 2025-08-08.
5. "Bienhadadas". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
6. "Carrousel d'émotions". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
7. "Cœur en oasis". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
8. "El milagro de la palabra". Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
9. Clara Ventura, Bella (2000). Hechizos de bosque[Spells of the Forest] (in Spanish). CLUB EDITORES S.A. ISBN   9789583321351.
10. Clara Ventura, Bella (22 June 2012). Liberté, hôtesse du coeur[Freedom, Hostess of the Heart] (in French) (DU CYGNE ed.). DU CYGNE. ISBN   9782849242810.
11. "Diáspora y asombro". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
12. "La voz de la valija". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
13. "A lo lejos". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
14. "Huésped de la luz". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
15. "Magias y retablos". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
16. "Mujer de lunas y soles". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
17. "Niña de adentro". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
18. "Atisbos de luz". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
19. "Oasis de un despertar". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
20. Arboles de leche y miel. | ISBN 978-958-99133-0-7 - Libro (in Spanish).
21. "Eros en... canto". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
22. "Orfandades". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
23. "Palpitations". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
24. "Passion en Arc-en-ciel". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
25. "Paz sicaria de la lágrima". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
26. "Semence de l'absence". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
27. "Tsunami de feu". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
28. "Cinquante-cinq jours sans toi". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
29. "Bella Clara Ventura, poeta colombiana". artepoetica.net. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
30. "África en la sangre". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
31. Clara Ventura, Bella. Almamocha. ISBN   9781798670132.
32. "Almas de Papel". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
33. "Corazón en telarañas". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
34. Clara Ventura, Bella (2000). Lo que la Vida Quiera[Whatever Life Wants] (in Spanish). Oveja Negra. ISBN   9788482804460.
35. Clara Ventura, Bella (1 April 2003). El Viento de la Sombra[The Shadow Wind] (in Spanish). Centauro Pub. ISBN   9789588184395.
36. Clara Ventura, Bella (2014). Armando fuego[Setting up fire] (in Spanish) (1 ed.). Editorial Oveja Negra. ISBN   9789580610045.
37. "La voz de la pasión". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
38. "La sed del tiempo". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
39. "Las tres gracias". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
40. "Nace Sana". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
41. Clara Ventura, Bella (2020). El amor en los tiempos del coronavirus[Love in the time of coronavirus] (in Spanish). Pigmalión. ISBN   9788418333200.
42. "Contigo aprendí". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
43. "Rehén de le memoria 2025". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
44. "La voz de la violencia". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
45. "Canadá para siempre". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
46. "Un hombre milenario". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
47. "Escritura de luz". Bella Clara Ventura (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-08-08.
48. "WorldWide Peace Organization Details". wwpo.org. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

External links

• Official Website
• Anthology of poetry