Juana Dib

Juana Dib (Salta City, August 2, 1924 - Salta City, August 29, 2015) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher.^[1]

Biography

The daughter of Syrian Greek Orthodox Christian parents from Tumin, in the Hama Governorate, she was the third of eleven siblings.^[2]

Trained as a teacher, Dib taught Spanish and administrative writing. Many of her students were immigrants and children of immigrants, whom she taught to speak and write in the Spanish language. She was a member of the Caja de Previsión Social de la Provincia, the Centro Salteño de Investigaciones de la Cultura Árabe, and the Federación de Entidades Argentino Árabes filial Salta.^[3] Much of her work was translated by Zaki Konsol, Juan Yacer, and Michael Nooman, and published in Syrian and Lebanese newspapers and magazines. After her death, the Syrian-Lebanese Union of Salta described her as "una excelsa poetisa, escritora y guía intelectual de la causa árabe" (an excellent poetess, writer and intellectual guide of the Arab cause).

Awards and honours

• 1993, Premio del Concurso de Poesía para Autores Éditos de la Dirección Provincial de Cultura de Salta^[4]
• 2010, Premio del Concurso Provincial de Novela de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Salta^[5]

Selected works

• El milagro de una rosa (1 ed.). 1982.
• Las Doradas (1 ed.). Edición del Autor. 1989. ISBN 978-950-43-5057-6.
• Las Dos Vertientes (1 ed.). Gráfiker. 1993. ISBN 978-987-99003-9-0.
• La Mandragora (1 ed.). Ministerio de Educación de la Provincia de Salta. 1993. ISBN 978-987-99601-0-3.
• Las Invitadas (1 ed.). Del Robledal. 2000. ISBN 978-987-9364-08-6.
• El Páramo que clama (1 ed.). Del Robledal. 2001. ISBN 978-987-9364-15-4.
• Viajeros del Orontes (1 ed.). Ministerio de Educación de la Provincia de Salta. 2002. ISBN 978-987-98838-8-4.
• Poblada de Voces (1 ed.). Víctor Manuel Hanne Editor. 2008. ISBN 978-987-9140-82-6.
• Elegía a Palestina (1 ed.). Víctor Manuel Hanne Editor. 2009. ISBN 978-987-1578-13-9.
• Flores naturales (1 ed.). Ministerio de Educación de la Provincia de Salta. 2010. ISBN 978-987-1196-65-4.
• Hierro Dulce (1 ed.). Víctor Manuel Hanne Editor. 2014. ISBN 978-987-1933-61-7.
• Destino - Argentina (1 ed.). Fondo Editorial Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Salta. 2015. ISBN 978-987-1929-37-5. (posthumous).

See also

• Syrian Argentines

References

Further reading

• Palmer, Marcus S. (2020). "Juana Dib y el mahyar árabe-americano" (PDF). TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. 9 (4). doi:10.5070/T494048551. ISSN 2154-1353.

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