
Diana Bellessi is from the province of Santa Fé in Argentina. Born in 1946, she has become one of the foremost voices in Latin America. Her many awards include the 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, the 1996 Antorchas Foundation fellowship, the 2004 Premio Konex, Merit Award, the 2007 Fondo Nacional de las Artes, lifetime award in poetry. Her work demonstrates a deep commitment to progressive politics, ecological conservation, and the social condition of the working class in Argentina and Latin America. Her poetry is seen as groundbreaking for depicting Lesbian desire and has strongly influenced prominent poets and writers from the 80s and 90s to the present day.
阿根廷當代著名詩人,1946年生於聖塔菲省(Santa Fé),是1983年軍政府獨裁結束後的新時期該國最具代表性的詩人之一,亦是當代拉丁美洲詩歌最重要的聲音之一。貝列西已出版15部詩集,並被陸續翻譯成英、法、德等多種語言;自1972年的處女作《命運與宣言 》(Destino y propagaciones)到最晚近的2018年作品《愛如死般堅強》(Fuerte como la muerte es el amor),她保持著每十年完成三至四本詩集的豐盛創造力。貝列西於 1993 年獲古根海姆基金會詩歌獎(Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry),2011 年獲阿根廷國家詩歌獎,並於2004 年和 2014 年兩度獲 Konex 獎*。2012年,關於貝列西的人物紀錄長片《秘密花園》(El jardín secreto)上映。貝列西的作品意象大膽,聲音篤定。她閱歷豐富,20 世紀 70 年代曾花了六年時間徒步走遍整個美洲,曾在布宜諾斯艾利斯監獄的寫作工作坊中教課數年。
* 該獎項創立於1980年,每五年頒發一次,旨在褒揚在阿根廷社會各界做出突出貢獻、值得成為青少年榜樣的人物。