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Susana Rotker | |
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Born | Caracas, Venezuela | 3 July 1954
Died | 27 November 2000 Piscataway, New Jersey, United States | (aged 46)
Alma mater | University of Maryland |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
Spouse | Tomás Eloy Martínez |
Awards | Casa de las Américas Prize (1991) |
Susana Rotker (3 July 1954 – 27 November 2000) was a Venezuelan journalist, columnist, essayist, and writer.[1]
The daughter of Jewish immigrants, Susana Rotker graduated from Andrés Bello National University in Caracas in 1975, was an assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires,[2] and received a doctorate in Hispanic literature from the University of Maryland in 1989.[2] She was a professor of Latin American literature and director of the Rutgers Center for Hemispheric Studies in New Jersey.[1]
She was a noted film critic in her column "La gran ilusión" in the Caracas newspaper El Nacional.[3][4]
Around 1979, she met the Argentine intellectual Tomás Eloy Martínez exiled in Venezuela, with whom she had a daughter Sol Ana in 1986, and with whom she lived until the traffic accident that cost Rotker her life in 2000.[2] She resided in Highland Park, New Jersey.[2]
In 1991 she received the Casa de las Américas Prize for her work La invención de la crónica about José Martí.[3]
She was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 1997.[1][6]
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