Laura Yasán


Laura Yasán was an Argentine poet.
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Career

Laura Yasán was born in Buenos Aires on 20 October 1960. Throughout her career, she organized writing workshops in penitentiary units, homes for minors, asylums, and libraries. In April 2016, she coordinated an experimental workshop on creative writing and psychodrama at the University Cultural Center of the National University of the Northeast. In 1988 she joined the 3rd Antología Ilustrada de poesía joven, and later the poetic anthology Zapatos Rojos 2000.
Her work was partially translated into English and published in the journal Poetry Ireland Review in 2002.
In 1998, she became part of A* Prieto, a women's group dedicated to literature.
Yasán participated in various poetry festivals and literary encounters, such as the International Poetry Festival of Rosario, the 13th International Poetry Festival of Medellín, the 1st International Poetry Festival in Lima, the Latin American Poetry Festival in Buenos Aires, the 2nd Correntino Poetry Festival, and the Poetry Festival in Mendoza.
With the authors, Patricia Díaz Bialet, and Juano Villafañe, she wrote the collective poem Con un tigre en la boca. Manual de los amantes in 2016.
Yasán died on 20 June 2021.

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