
Carmen Berenguer
Carmen Berenguer
Poetess, chronicler and visual artist. Carmen Berenguer made her creative work known in the 80’s. Her proposal combines political opinion, cultural criticism and reflections about language, whose oral and written lines are explored under a provocative aesthethics.
Her poetic project expresses a deep social egagement that lead her to develop topics about city issues , especially those related to politics , female gender and the connections between body and language. All this in addition to the combination of literary genres are the axes of a suggestive work with symbolic and cultural thickness.
In 2005 Carmen Berenguer obtained a grant “Creación del fondo del libro”. In 2006 published the poetry book “Mama Marx” which talks about the city defeats and two years later the house of poetry . In 2008 won the Pablo Neruda ibero-american poetry prize, first time has been awarded to a chilean writer.