Interviews

By Viviana Marcela Iriart

Viviana Marcela Iriart (1958) is an Argentine-Venezuelan writer and interviewer. She studied journalism in La Plata, Argentina, but for being a pacifist, she was exiled by the Argentine dictatorship in 1979. Venezuela granted her asylum, and four months later, at the age of 21, she wrote her first professional report... on Julio Cort zar, an interview included in this book.

She has published novels, plays, and three books on Carlos Gim nez: Bravo Carlos Gim nez , Carlos Gim nez the Irreverent Genius, and Mar a Teresa Castillo-Carlos Gim nez-Caracas International Theater Festival 1973-1992 (with Jos Pulido, Rolando Pe a, Roland Streuli, Karla G mez and Carmen Carmona). Founder of the publishing house Escritoras Unidas & C a. Editoras and the cultural blog of the same name.

JULIO CORT ZAR, Argentine writer: "A day in my life is always a very beautiful thing, because I feel very happy to be alive"

ESTHER DITA KOHN DE COH N, founder of the Anne Frank Space, patron of Venezuelan culture, creator of the book Exile to Life, Jewish survivors of the Shoah: (in the Holocaust, the family) "there were approximately 500 people; we don't know exactly how many were murdered, that was terrible."

JULIO EMILIO MOLIN , American filmmaker, co-director of "JOAN BAEZ IN LATIN AMERICA: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE" (1981), a documentary filmed clandestinely during Joan Baez's tour to support victims of the dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil: "Joan received death threats, was banned, and persecuted..."

NAVA SEMEL, Israeli writer: And the Rat Laughed with Jane Fonda (interview) and one text: "A Walk with Jane Fonda".

ROLANDO PE A, Venezuelan multimedia artist: "We baptized the group in a bathtub, and the godfather was Andy Warhol".

ELISA LERNER, Venezuelan writer and playwright: "Solitude is the writer's homeland"

SUSY DEMBO, Austrian-Venezuelan visual artist: "Engraving is alchemical, it is magical"

JOS PULIDO, Venezuelan poet, writer, and journalist: "I'm like a castaway clinging to his tongue"

CARLOS GIM NEZ, Argentine-Venezuelan theater director, cultural manager, founder of the Caracas International Theater Festival and the Rajatabla group: "Our country is the empire of faits accomplis, of de facto culture"

BEATRIZ IRIART, Argentine poet: "At 10 years old, I was already an old woman. Writing poetry was a way to transmute that pain."

DINAPIERA DI DONATO, Venezuelan poet: "The imagination creates versions of life, but I cannot understand life without a version"

MAR A LAMADRID, Argentine activist, founder of " frica Vive" "We are the first disappeared people in Argentina"

MARIANA ROND N, Venezuelan filmmaker, director of the film "Pelo Malo" "In my childhood, I believed that cinema was just one film, The Yellow Submarine."

ROLAND STREULI, Swiss-Venezuelan photographer: "My life is color; I am not an opaque or black and white person"

INTERVIEWS by Viviana Marcela Iriart, graphic design by Jairo Carthy, Escritoras Unidas & C a. Editoras

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F8R8P791
• ISBN13: 9798283800790
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"