Gisela Kozak


Gisela Kozak Rovero is a Venezuelan writer, essayist, teacher and researcher.
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Education and career

Kozak started writing when she was eight years old, as a game, imitating other authors such as Oscar Wilde and the Brothers Grimm. She graduated with a degree in literature from the Central University of Venezuela and afterwards obtained a PhD in the Simón Bolívar University.
She has worked as a cultural policies advisor, as a consultant for both public and private organizations in Venezuela and as a collaborator with the Spanish Cooperation Agency and the Goethe-Institut in the formation of cultural managers. She has also engaged in political activism and organized essay and narration workshops in the Literature School, as well as in the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies.
Kosak has also been an invited faculty for the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Dominican Republic, and as a lecturer for several universities.

Personal life

Kozak is openly lesbian.

Publications

  • ''Siete sellos: crónicas de la Venezuela Revolucionaria''

Essays

Rebelión en el Caribe hispánicoː urbes e historias más allá del boom y la posmodernidad La catástrofe imaginaríaː cultura, saber, tecnología, instituciones Venezuela, el país que siempre naceː literatura, política y pasión de historia Literatura asediada: revoluciones políticas, culturales y sociales
  • ''Ni tan chéveres ni tan iguales. El «cheverismo» venezolano y otras formas del disimulo''

Novels

Rapsodia Vida de machos Latidos de Caracas
  • ''Todas las lunas''

Stories

Pecados de la capital y otras historias En rojo, narración coral
Kozak has also published several articles in national and international specialized magazines, compilations and congress' memoirs.

Awards and recognitions