Manuela Fingueret

Manuela Fingueret (August 9, 1945[1] – March 11, 2013[2]) was an Argentine writer and educator.

Biography

The daughter of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants,[2] she was born in the La Chacarita barrio of Buenos Aires and studied to become a teacher and journalist. Fingueret was director of the Area de Cultura Judia del Centro Cultural General San Martin. She was programming director for FM Jai, a Jewish radio station and worked for several Jewish publications, including Nueva Sion and Arca del Sur'.[1]

In 1975, she published her first collection of poetry Tumultos contenidos (Contained tumult). It was followed by Heredarás Babel (You will inherit Babylon) in 1977 and La piedra es una llaga en el tiempo (The stone is a wound in time) in 1980.[1]

Fingueret was a long-time fan of the Atlanta soccer club and was given an honorary lifetime membership to the club in 2006.[3]

Selected works[1]
  • Ciudad en fuga y otros infiernos (City in flight and other hells), poetry (1984)
  • Eva y las máscaras (Eve and the masks), poetry (1987)
  • Las picardías de Hérshele (Hershele's mischief), children's book (1989)
  • Los huecos de tu cuerpo (The hollows of your body), poetry (1992)
  • Blues de la calle Leiva (Leiva street blues), novel (1995)
  • Hija del silencio (Daughter of silence), novel (2000)[4]
gollark: I accidentally didn't add enough cooling for its reactor, so the engine can only run at something like 40% power, so it is very slow.
gollark: My communications satellite is doing communications satellite things.
gollark: Why not just make an underground bunker?
gollark: Observe, my command-computer-based three-dimensional shape drawer.
gollark: Also, you need access to the actual one for the launcher to download game files I think.

See also

References
  1. Lockhart, Darrell B (2013). Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary. pp. 161–65. ISBN 1134754205.
  2. "Falleció la escritora Manuela Fingueret". infobae (in Spanish). March 12, 2013.
  3. Rein, Raanan; Sheinin, David (2014). Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas. p. 36. ISBN 9004284494.
  4. Fahey, Felicia Lynne (2007). The Will to Heal: Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers. p. xii. ISBN 0826328555.
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