Creator Bio
Teresa Porzecanski
b. 1945
Uruguayan-born Teresa Porzecanski is a novelist and a professor of social work and anthropology at the University of the Republic in Montevideo. Her novels and collections of short stories, which have been translated into several languages, often adopt a sense of timelessness. Among other awards, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Perfumes of Carthage
In her death agony—which lasted no more than an instant or two—Nazira Mualdeb reviewed the months preceding her granddaughter Alcira’s wedding and a torrent of ghostly images spontaneously abandoned…