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Isabel Sabogal
Isabel Sabogal, Cusco 2004
Isabel Sabogal, Cusco 2004
Born
Isabel María Sabogal

(1958-10-14) October 14, 1958 (age 67)
Lima, Peru,
OccupationPoet, novelist, translator and astrologer
NationalityPeruvian and Polish
Notable worksUn Universo dividido

Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (born October 14, 1958 in Lima) is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer.

Biography

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Her parents were José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (Peruvian, son of the painter José Sabogal) and Józefa Maria Dunin-Borkowska (Polish). Sabogal grew up in Lima, Göttingen and Warsaw and studied Hispanic literature and Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.[1]

Publications

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Books published

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  • Requiebros vanos. Poetry book. Lima, Ignacio Prado Pastor Editor, 1988;[2]
  • Entre el Cielo y el Infierno, un Universo dividido (Between Heaven and Hell, a divided Universe). Fantasy novel. Lima, Ignacio Prado Pastor Editor, 1989[3] and reprinted in 1993. Published a second time as Un Universo dividido (A divided Universe), Lima, Ediciones Altazor, 2016. ISBN 978-8-49-211428-3.[4]
  • Todo está hecho a la medida de ti misma. Poetry book. Lima, Grafos & Maquinaciones, 2022.

Work published in anthologies

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  • Poems in the anthology Poesía: Perú s. XXI (Poetry: Peru XXI century), (compilation by Dalmacia Ruiz Rosas and Willy Gómez Migliaro), Lima, Fundación Yacana, 2007.[5]
  • Ricardo Silva Santisteban (anthologist): Antología general de la traducción en el Perú (General anthology of translation in Peru), volume VII. Lima, Universidad Ricardo Palma – Editorial Universitaria, 2016. ISBN 978-612-4234-63-7.
  • Short story La vampira (The vampire) in the anthology of the fantastic stories Trece veces Sarah. Un proyecto de José Donayre (Thirteen times Sarah. A project by José Donayre), Lima, Ediciones Altazor, 2017, ISBN 978-849-2114-39-9.
  • Poems in the anthology Un otoño azul (A blue autumn), (compilation by Gloria Mendoza Borda). Arequipa, Cuervo Editores – Alianza Francesa de Arequipa, 2018.
  • Poems in the anthology Mujeres en fuego (Ladies in fire), Cusco, Editorial Fuego, 2024. Compilation by Lenyan Veka.

Work published within other books

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  • El dibujo del mundo (The drawing of the world), text published in the Pedro José Granado's novel Un chin de amor, Lima, Editorial San Marcos, 2005.[6]

Work published in the press

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  • Dni poczęcia (The days of conception), Warsaw, Fantastyka magazine, 1990, N° 2, (in Polish).[7]
    • In Spanish language: Los días del origen, Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 19, October 2020. Author's translation.
  • A fragment of an unpublished novel Niewiarygodna Bajka (The unbelievable story), Kraków, Lektura magazine, Nº 11/12, 1992, (in Polish). [8]
  • Historia o pewnej qeqe (Story of a "qeqe"), Andean oral tradition compiled and translated by Sabogal to Polish. Salwator i świat magazine, Kraków, 1992, N° 1, (in Polish).
  • Poetry, La hoja latinoamericana magazine, Uppsala, 1992 – 1993;
  • Poetry, El Sol newspaper, Cusco, 2002 – 2004;
  • Cuatro poetas cusqueños (Four poets of Cusco), Lima's cultural magazine Voces, Lima, N° 39, December 2009.[9]
  • Notes about Polish history, literature and culture in the Peruvian-Polish press, 2006–2016.[10]
  • La hora "U" (The hour "U"), Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 17, June 2020.
  • Nuestra guerra sin fin (Our endless war), Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 23, January 2022.
  • Nuestro pueblo errante (Our wandering people), Relatos increíbles magazine, Nº 26, May 2022.

Translation from Polish into Spanish

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  • Polonia: la revolución de Solidarność (Poland: The Solidarność revolution), Lima, Apuntes, Centro de Documentación e Investigación, 1982. It includes Sabogal's translations of the Polish underground writings.[11]
  • Sabogal was the editor, translator and wrote the introduction to Poesía escogida (Selected Poetry) of the Polish poet and Nobel Laureate, Czesław Miłosz. A bilingual edition in Polish and Spanish, sponsored by the Polish Embassy in Lima and the American-Peruvian Cultural Institute. Lima, Ediciones del Hipocampo, 2012.[12]

Blog

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  • Since 2007 she has been blogging on the Isabel Sabogal platform which includes Sabogal's own work as well as writings on literature, astrology and other subjects.

Cultural management

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  • Co-organizer of the III Peruvian Women Writers' Meeting, held in September 2003 in Cusco.
  • Co-organizer of the Seminar La mujer y la Literatura (Woman and Literature), held in March 2004 in Cusco.
  • Co-organizer of the round table on Czeslaw Milosz, held in November 2011 in Lima, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth.[13]

Distinctions

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Bibliography

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  • Rossella di Paolo: Entre el Cielo y el Infierno, Lima, alternative news magazine La tortuga, Nº 31, 1989.[15]
  • Carina Moreno: Poesía escogida de Czeslaw Milosz, Lima's cultural magazine Voces, Lima, Nº 49, October 2012.
  • Ricardo Silva Santisteban: Breve historia de la traducción en el Perú, Lima, Instituto Bibliográfico del Perú, 2013. ISBN 978-612-46210-1-7.
  • Helena Usandizaga: Todo está hecho a la medida de ti misma de Isabel Sabogal. Lima, Lucerna magazine, N° 15, March 2024.
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References

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  1. ^ Interview with Isabel Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski (in Spanish);
  2. ^ Requiebros vanos in Google books;
  3. ^ Entre el Cielo y el Infierno, un Universo dividido;
  4. ^ Un Universo dividido in the Peruvian books website (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Yacana y los nuevos mitos por Miguel Ildefonso (in Spanish).
  6. ^ Silvana Maria Mamani: La poesía como contacto andino-caribeño (in Spanish).
  7. ^ Polish Literary Bibliography
  8. ^ Niewiarygodna Bajka
  9. ^ Voces magazine
  10. ^ Polonian Digital Library
  11. ^ Preguntas incómodas sobre el modelo polaco (in Spanish).
  12. ^ Poesía escogida;
  13. ^ Piotr M. Małachowski: Co Czesław Miłosz robi w stolicy Peru? Łączy ludzi (in Polish).
  14. ^ Award ceremony.
  15. ^ Rossella Di Paolo: Entre el Cielo y el Infierno