Awards & Winners

Cristina Peri Rossi

Date of Birth 12-November-1941
Place of Birth Montevideo
(Uruguay, Montevideo Department)
Nationality Uruguay, Spain
Also know as Cristina Rossi
Profession Writer, Novelist
Cristina Peri Rossi is an Uruguayan novelist, poet, translator, and author of short stories. Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but was exiled in 1972, and moved to Spain, where she became a citizen in 1975. As of 2005 she lives in Barcelona, where she continues to write fiction and work as a journalist. She studied at the University of the Republic.

Awards by Cristina Peri Rossi

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