Miguelángel Meza is a Guaraní poet and cultural promoter born in Caacupé, Paraguay, in 1955. He has contributed to numerous anthropological and linguistic research studies, as well as translations. He has also worked for the National Ministry of Culture of Paraguay. He has published the books Ita ha’eñoso (1985), Perurima rapykuere (1985 and 2001), Purahéi (2001 and 2011), Chipi Gonzales guahẽrã (2006), Maleõ (2007), Perurima pypore (2010), and Arami mburukujaguýre (2012). He is the founder of the cartonera press Mburukujarami Kartonéra, with which he has published numerous titles authored by himself and others.
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Holding the rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the State University of New York at Oswego, Tracy K. Lewis has long been an advocate for the cultural achievements of Paraguay, with particular emphasis on its literature in Guaraní. He has written about and translated numerous Paraguayan writers, including Augusto Roa Bastos, Juan Manuel Marcos, Renée Ferrer, Susy Delgado, Miguelángel Meza, and Tadeo Zarratea, and is himself the author of three volumes of poetry in Spanish, Guaraní, and English. In 2012 he was awarded the medal of the Paraguayan Ministry of Education for his efforts in disseminating knowledge of the nation's culture, and in 2014 he was made a member of the Ateneo de Lengua y Cultura Guaraní, a distinction given to few non-Paraguayans. In addition, Lewis has a long record of scholarship and advocacy for other Indigenous languages of the Americas, including Quechua and Mohawk, beginning with his doctoral dissertation on the novels of the great Peruvian writer José María Arguedas.
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Miguelángel Meza is a Guaraní poet and cultural promoter born in Caacupé, Paraguay, in 1955. He has contributed to numerous anthropological and linguistic research studies, as well as translations. He has also worked for the National Ministry of Culture of Paraguay. He has published the books Ita ha’eñoso (1985), Perurima rapykuere (1985 and 2001), Purahéi (2001 and 2011), Chipi Gonzales guahẽrã (2006), Maleõ (2007), Perurima pypore (2010), and Arami mburukujaguýre (2012). He is the founder of the cartonera press Mburukujarami Kartonéra, with which he has published numerous titles authored by himself and others.
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