Iván Oñate is an Ecuadorean poet and academic. Oñate was born in on March 17, 1948, in Ambato, Ecuador. He lives in Quito, Ecuador. He has been called âÂÂthe most original poet of the new generationâ by French critics Jean Franco and Jean-Marie Lemogodeuc They further remark that âÂÂone must pay attention to his disquieting visions, to his taste for life and vertigo, to his wild revelations mixing anguish and delirium.â He has published eight books of poetry and fiction, and his widely anthologized work has been translated into at least five languages.
Oñate is a professor of Semiotics and Latin American Literature at the Central University of Ecuador.
Works
Poetry
- EstadÃÂa poética (Argentina,1968)
- En casa del ahorcado (Quito, 1977)
- El ángel ajeno (Quito, 1983)
- AnatomÃÂa del vacÃÂo (Quito, 1988)
- El fulgor de los desollados -antologÃÂa- (Quito, 1992)
- La nada sagrada (Quito, 1999).
- La frontera (Editorial Arquitrave. Bogotá, 2006).
- El paÃÂs de las tinieblas (Ediciones de Medianoche. Mexico, 2008.)
Stories
- El hacha enterrada, (Quito, 1987).
- La canción de mi compañero de celda (Quito, 1995).
Anthologies
- Palabras y contrastes (Cuenca, 1984)
- PoesÃÂa viva del Ecuador (Quito, 1990)
- La palabra perdurable (Quito, 1991)
- Erzählungen aus Spanisch Amerika -cuentos hispanoamericanos- (DTV, Alemania, 1992)
- Anthologie de la littérature Hispano-américaine du XXe siècle (Francia, 1993)
- Diez cuentistas ecuatorianos (Quito, 1993)
- Doce cuentistas ecuatorianos (Quito, 1995)
- Veintiún cuentistas ecuatorianos (Quito, 1996)
- AntologÃÂa de la poesÃÂa cósmica (México, 1996)
- AntologÃÂa básica del cuento ecuatoriano (Quito, 1998)
- World poetry 2000 (2000)
- Cuento ecuatoriano contemporáneo (México, 2000).
- Der Wundertäter - El milagrero, Erzählungen aus Süd- und Mittelamerika (DTV, Alemania, 2006)
- La poesÃÂa del siglo XX en Ecuador, (Colección Visor de PoesÃÂa, Madrid, 2007)
- Cauteloso engaño del sentido (Rei Berroa editor, Colección Libros de la Luna, Rep. Dominicana 2007)
- AntologÃÂa de la poesÃÂa latinoamericana al siglo XXI (Editorial Difácil, Valladolid, 2007)
- Pasión de Papel. Cuentos sobre el mundo del libro (Editorial Páginas de Espuma, Madrid, 2007)
References