Conversación con Teresa Calderón

“yo he sentido muchas veces que escribir me ha salvado la vida, literalmente”.

Abstract

Teresa Calderón is one of the most important voices in literature in our language; His constant presence in the most important lyrical poetry anthologies in Chile and Latin America, since the 80s, certifies this. Poet, essayist, novelist, anthologist, teacher and workshop facilitator, he has won, among others, the National Poetry Contest (1984), the Pablo Neruda Prize (1992), the Altazor Prize (1999), and the National Literature Prize (2004). ). On this occasion I present an interview conducted in the context of the Festival de la Lira 2022, in Cuenca, Ecuador, in which topics such as poetics in her work, work on language, feminism, activism and politics in Literature.