Ida Vitale
Ida Vitale
b. 1923-11-02 · From Uruguay- Books
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Ida Vitale (born 2 November 1923 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan poet, essayist, translator and literary critic, and the last surviving member of Uruguay's "Generation of 45," which also included Mario Benedetti and Juan Carlos Onetti. She fled to Mexico City in 1973 amid Uruguay's military dictatorship, later lived in Austin, Texas, and returned to Montevideo in 2016.
Her poetry — noted for its precision, irony and engagement with language and memory — has earned her the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry (2015), the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize (2016), and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spanish letters' highest honor, in 2018.
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Yes. Ida Vitale won the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 2018 — the highest literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world, awarded annually by Spain's Ministry of Culture for a lifetime body of work in the Spanish language. She was the fifth woman to receive it, and was recognized, at age 95, as the creator of one of the most distinctive poetic voices in contemporary Spanish-language literature. She also received the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry in 2015 and the Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances (Guadalajara International Book Fair Prize) in 2018.