Dina ANANCO AHUANANCHI

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(1985). Awajún and Wampis poet and visual artist from the Amazon region. She is a translator and interpreter on the Ministry of Culture’s National Registry of Interpreters and Translators of Indigenous Languages. She studied Literature and did a Master's Degree in Peruvian and Latin American Literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. She has published stories and poems in literary magazines and has participated in the 35th Guadalajara International Book Fair; the 9th Carlos Montemayor Poetry Festival of the Languages ​​of America (October 13, 2022); the Oaxaca International Book Fair, 2023; the Latinale-Madrid; the Berlin Poetry Festival (2023); and in different recitals at national and international level. She published the poetry collection Sanchiu (Pakarina Ediciones, 2021), with which she won the 2022 National Literature Prize, in the category Literature in Indigenous or Native Languages. She has also been anthologized in the Revista literaria de la Universidad de Guadalajara (2021), Nuestramérica es un verso. Antología poética 1968-1989 (2021) and Warmikuna/Nuwa/Mujer. Antología de poesía contemporánea escrita por mujeres en lenguas originarias (2022). She is currently preparing a book of short stories.

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