Esdras Parra

Esdras Parra (1937 Santa Cruz de Mora, Venezuela – 2004) was a Venezuelan writer, poet, and trans woman.[1] She was a founding editor of the literary magazine Imagen.[2][3]

Parras began her career writing short stories and later wrote poetry.[1] Her poetry has been translated into English by Jamie Berrout.[4] Parra transitioned to a woman in London in the early seventies.

Parras returned to Venezuela in the late seventies. Due to her transition, she was fired from her job at the Revista Nacional de Cultura and rejected by her family and colleagues. She didn't publish a book after that until 1995,[2] when she published Este suelo secreto, where she discusses living as a trans woman.[5]

References
  1. Balderston, Daniel; Gonzalez, Mike (2004). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003. Routledge. p. 417. ISBN 9781134399604.
  2. Parra, Esdras (2016). To be human once more. Translated by Berrout, Jamie. pp. 2–9.
  3. Dávalos, B., & Parra, E. (1957). Imagen: Quincenario de arte, literatura e información cultural. Caracas: Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes.
  4. Collen, Nora (27 August 2019). "True Midday: On the Collected Poems of Esdras Parra, translated by Jamie Berrout. Review". Ossa Magazine. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  5. "Este suelo secreto (To be human once more) – Henry Art Gallery". henryart.org. Retrieved 26 March 2017.


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