The writer is the sixth woman to win the most prestigious award for Spanish letters since 1976. Cristina Peri Rossi (Montevideo, 1941) has obtained the Cervantes Prize, the highest award for letters in Spanish.
She has lived in Barcelona since the 70s, where she went into exile to escape the military dictatorship in her country. Her work, with a high political, erotic identity and lesbian content, ranges from poetry and stories to the novel and the essay.
She began her literary career as a short story writer gaining high relevance. However, her adamant views of a radical left, led to censorship by the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1970s, which led her to pack her bags for Spain, after stopping in Paris in 1974 with Julio Cortázar, avoiding the Franco dictatorship still strong in Spain. In Barcelona she got to know the whole 'gauche divine' movement with figures like Oscar and Esther Tusquets and Ana María Moix.
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