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Nedda G. de Anhalt was born in Havana, Cuba in 1934 and became a Mexican citizen in December 1967. She studied Civil Law at the University of Havana and Literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She has a Masters degree in Latin-American Studies from the University of the Americas, where she has taught Hispano-American Literature. She has published fiction, interviews, essays, poems, literary, and cinema reviews. Some of these Works have been translated into English, German, Italian, Hebreo and Turkish. Her own translations: from the French, English and Portuguese have appeared in various Mexican and foreign newspapers, literary supplements and magazines. She has published in El Universal, Semanario de Bellas Artes, Revista Mexicana de Cultura, Sábado, Suplemento Cultural Gráfico de Xalapa, Punto de Partida, La Palabra y el Hombre, El Parnaso, Tribuna Israelita, Foro, Diálogos, Siempre, Kesher, Keren Hayesod Bet El, Casa del Tiempo, Vuelta, La Gaceta del FCE,Biblioteca de México, Nexos, Tierra Adentro, Macrópolis, Mar de Tinta, Papeles de San Mateo, El Tlacuache, Opus 123, Cinemanía, Nitrato de Plata, Aquilón, the supplement Culturas of Diario l6 of Madrid, Turia magazine of Zaragoza, both Spanish; Linden Lane, Círculo and La Nuez in the United States; Carta de Cuba in Puerto Rico: La Crónica in Lima, Perú. Her cinematic reviews “Cine por Venir” appeared beginning in 1985 for several years in the Unomasuno newspaper. She is a member of the Consejo Editorial of two magazines: Cinemanía and La Otra Cuba.
She has taken part in various writers' meetings and conferences, -the most recent ones in San Lorenzo El Escorial (1997 and 1998); the University of Murcia (1999) in Spain; First Encounter of PEN Centers in Hispanoamérica, Miami, Eua, (2000); 60° World Congress of the Internacional PEN Writers, Mexico City, in wich she was the coordinator and introduced the “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer” and the panel “Frontiers, Exile and Freedom of Expresion (2003); poetry lectures in the Poetry Marathon in Toluca, México (2003); First and Second Encounters; “Letras en El Golfo”, Tampico, Tamaulipas (2002 and 2003); Poetry Lectures on the 73° World Congress of PEN Internacional writers, in Dakar, Senegal (2007); First Literary Encounter “Jaime Sabines”, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas (2007); invited guest at the “Succesfull Women Panel” CDI, Mexico D. F. (2007); VI International Symposium “Rubén Darío”, León, Nicaragua (2008). Also she has been invited to the national tributes to Octavio Paz, Sergio Galindo, José Luis Martínez, Inés Arredondo, José Luis Cuevas, Reinaldo Arenas, Rosario Castellanos and Homero Aridjis, among others. She was part of the jury for the Cultural Journalism Prize, the Juan Rulfo Prize for first novel of the Art Critics' Prize on Rufino Tamayo, of the Cultural Baja California Prize for Fiction, International Sergio Galindo Prize, the Cultural Baja California Prize for Fiction and the Gilberto Owen Prize for Short Story; Best Mexican novels poll, Nexos Magazine.
In 1984, Editorial Oasis printed her collection of short stories Random Mail (number 50 of the Colección Los Libros del Fakir, with an original drawing by José Luis Cuevas). She is the author of a selection of stories by Sergio Galindo (with an introductory note) published by UNAM, México, 1986). Her essay “The Prizes” is part of an anthology La Presencia Judía en México (UNAM/Tribuna Israelita, México, 1987). Her essay Nine Essayists in Search of an Author is the prologue to Toma I, Cine de Autor, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, 1992). Her essay Love: West and East (Notes for a Comparative Study on La Hija de Rappaccini by Hawthorne and Paz is part of the volume Festejo: 80 Años de Octavio Paz, (El Tucán of Virginia, México, 1994). Her essay Among Words and Images forms part of the Luis Donaldo Colosio book (Ediciones Papeles Privados, México, 1994). Her essay “Moses in Martí” is published in a collective volume: José Martí, Volume XXV from Círculo Revista de Cultura, 1996, New Jersey. Her essay “El Bordo: Ramillete de Imágenes” is published in Miradas a la Obra de Sergio Galindo, Jalapa, México 1996. An introduction and An Anthology of Galindo's short stories, Juego de Soledades, were prepared by Anhalt in UNAM, México, 1999. Her essay “The Proust-Valia of History” in Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Assays, Essays, and Other Arts was published by Ardis L. Nelson in Twayne Publishers, New York, 1999; her essay “Cabbage and Hamper” is published in Diálogos Cervantinos, University of Murcia, Spain, 2001.
Anhalt has also published: Films: The Great Seduction. México, 1991, The Banquet (stories), México, 1991, Red and Orange over Red (interviews with 11 exiled Cuban writers with a colored drawing by Severo Sarduy), Vuelta, México, 1991, Where You Can See the Fog: An approach to the work of Sergio Galindo, UNAM, México, 1992. An introduction and selection to The Fabulous Feast. Thirteen Cuban Poets —in collaboration with Víctor Manuel Mendiola and Manuel Ulacia— El Tucán de Virginia, México, 1992-, Impassioned Critic, Los Domésticos, Mëxico, 1994, Outrageous Stories, with drawings by Basia Batorska, Incaro, México, 1994. Her most recent short stories In Good Time Green Mangoes, was published by Cocodrilo Verde in Madrid, Spain, 1998. Tell her I think of her, is her new book of interviews with Cuban exiles, La otra Cuba, México, 1999; Why Dreyfus?, The essay of a crime, Sello Bermejo, Conaculta, México, 2003. Exile Notebooks (poems), Praxis, 2006.
Some of her short stories have been published in a collective volume The Women of the Tower, Oceano, México, 1996; Narrative and freedom, Vol. I, Universal, 1996. Her short story “Ein Verbindungsmann” was translated into German, by Tobias Burghardt, and published in a collective bilingual German and Spanish volume: Chili und Salz, Daedalus Verlag, 1995, Germany. Her short story A Concealing Nakedness, was tranlated into English, by Nancy Abraham Hall, and published in a collective English volume: A Necklace of Words. Her short story La Cárcel, was published in a Spanish volume Narrativa y Libertad. Cuentos Cubanos de la Diáspora, 1996; her short story “It happened in Havana” is published in Nuestra Voz/Notre Voix/Our Voice, an anthology of the PEN Club International Writers, Argentina, 2001, among others. Her poem “Balseros”, “Sea Rafters”, was selected in the book Dance the guns to silence, 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa, Flipped Eye Publishing, African Writers Abroad.
She has been interviewed by several newspapermen and 38 writers have dedicated literary criticism of her work.
Nedda G. de Anhalt belongs to the Grupo de los Cien (One hundred intellectuals in favor of ecology in Mexico), and to PEN Club International. She was the Secretary (1997-2000) and since 2001 she is the Vice president of Mexican PEN.
Última actualización: Marzo 6, 2008.
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