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Juana Dib

Juana Dib (Salta City, August 2, 1924 - Salta City, August 29, 2015) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher. [1]

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Biography

The daughter of Syrian Greek Orthodox Christian parents from Tumin, in the Hama Governorate, she was the third of eleven siblings. [2]

Trained as a teacher, Dib taught Spanish and administrative writing. Many of her students were immigrants and children of immigrants, whom she taught to speak and write in the Spanish language. She was a member of the Caja de Previsión Social de la Provincia, the Centro Salteño de Investigaciones de la Cultura Árabe, and the Federación de Entidades Argentino Árabes filial Salta. [3] Much of her work was translated by Zaki Konsol, Juan Yacer, and Michael Nooman, and published in Syrian and Lebanese newspapers and magazines. After her death, the Syrian-Lebanese Union of Salta described her as "una excelsa poetisa, escritora y guía intelectual de la causa árabe" (an excellent poetess, writer and intellectual guide of the Arab cause).

Awards and honours

Selected works

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References

  1. "Falleció la poetisa Juana Dib, 'seré mandrágora desahogando mi llanto'" [Poet Juana Dib passed away, 'I will be a mandrake venting my tears]. El Intransigente (in Spanish). Salta. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 9 June 2024 via Internet Archive.
  2. "Juana Dib: ¿A veces las mujeres escriben más duro que los hombres?" [Juana Dib: Do women sometimes write harder than men?]. El Tribuno (in Spanish). Salta Province. 30 March 2013.
  3. "Juana Dib" (in Spanish). Argentina: Portal de Salta.
  4. Rodríguez, Jesús (1 September 2015). "La 'Tía Juana' fue una poeta de Salta con obras en árabe" ['Aunt Juana' was a poet from Salta with works in Arabic]. Clarín.
  5. Barthe, Juan (30 August 2015). "Hierro dulce, el último libro de Juana Dib" [Sweet Iron, the latest book by Juana Dib]. El Tribuno.

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