Natalia Krivoshein de Canese

Natalia Krivoshein de Canese (7 May 1926 – 14 August 2019) was a Paraguayan philologist, an expert in the Guarani language.

Biography

Natalia Krivoshein was born in Prague to a Russian family of and Nina Lomshakova. She was brought to Argentina when she was three years old. Her father was an engineer. In 1930, by the invitation of Juan Belaieff he came to Paraguay and was among the founders of the Faculty of Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. (At that time it was called Faculty of Physics and Mathematics).

At the age of 40 she graduated from the Guaraní Linguistics Institute ().

For several years she taught Guarani at the of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. She was a founder of the magazine Revista Bilingüe de Cultura Ñemity.

She married (Arquímedes Canese), Paraguaian microbiologist. They had a daughter Marta Canese Krivoshein, (artist, born 1953), and sons: poet and author , (Paraguayan politician, M.P.), Juan Carlos, Miguae, and Andrés (Andrés Pedro Canese Krisvoshein, microbiologist).

Books

• 1983: Gramática de la lengua guaraní
• 1987: El espanõl del Paraguay en contacto con el guaraní (with Graziella Corvalán)
• 2015: [Guarani Language for Use in Medicine] (with Gino Canese)

Together with Feliciano Acosta Alcatraz:

• 1990: Ñe'ẽryru. diccionario guaraní-español ()
• 1994: [Life of Ka'i] (collection of Paraguaian myths)
• 1994: [Adventures of Ka'i] (collection of Paraguaian myths)
• 1996: (collection of Paraguaian myths)
• 1999: (collection of Paraguaian myths)
• 2005: (as editors) , collection of Guarani poetry

References

Further reading

• El legado del exilio de intelectuales rusos a la cultura científica del Paraguay