Creator Bio
Perla Suez
b. 1947
Perla Suez, born in Córdoba, Argentina, grew up in the province of Entre Ríos, in a region where Jewish immigrants had settled in the nineteenth century. She is the author of children’s fiction as well as novels for adults. Among other awards, Suez received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rímulo Gallegos Award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Lethargy
I dream that I’m standing in the doorway of my house, and I hear shouts, but I don’t want to go in. I’m eleven years old, and my hair is braided down my back.
A man asks me in the language of my…