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Teresa Porzecanski
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Teresa Porzecanski Cohen
May 5, 1945 Montevideo, Uruguay
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| Nationality |  Uruguay |
| Alma mater | Universidad de la República |
| Occupation | anthropologist, writer, professor |
| Awards | Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo Premio Morosolli Premio Alas |
Teresa Porzecanski Cohen was born on May 5, 1945. She is a well-known Uruguayan anthropologist, writer, and university professor.
About Teresa Porzecanski
Teresa Porzecanski Cohen grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her family was Jewish; her father came from Latvia and her mother from Syria. She studied at the University of the Republic and earned a degree in social work.
Teresa Porzecanski is known for her writings about different groups of people in Uruguay. She has focused on the Jewish communities and Afro-Uruguayan minorities. She also explores important topics like fairness and how different cultures live together.
She has taught at several universities, including the Catholic University of Uruguay and the University of the Republic. From 1978 to 1981, she gathered stories from Jewish immigrants. These stories were later published in her book Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay.
Her fiction books often explore themes of identity and how people adjust to new places. They also look at how people treat minorities and the inner thoughts of women.
Teresa Porzecanski has received many important awards for her work. In 1992, she was given a Guggenheim Fellowship. This allowed her to study the Sephardic Jewish community and their traditions. She also received a Fulbright scholarship and a Rockefeller Residency Grant. The Ministry of Education of Uruguay has given her five awards. She also won two awards from the Municipality of Montevideo. Other honors include the Critics Award Bartolomé Hidalgo in 1995 and the Morosoli Award for Literature in 2004.
Selected Works
Teresa Porzecanski has written many books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction Books
- 1967, The Riddle and other stories (El acertijo y otros cuentos)
- 1979, Constructions (Construcciones)
- 1981, Sun Inventions (Invención de los soles)
- 1986, An ... Novel (Una novela erótica)
- 1989, Messiah in Montevideo (Mesías en Montevideo)
- 1989, Breath is a Forge (La respiración es una fragua)
- 1994, Perfumes of Cartaghe (Perfumes de Cartago)
- 1996, The skin of the soul (La piel del alma)
- 2002, Fleeting happiness (Felicidades fugaces)
Nonfiction Books
- 1986, Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay (La vida empezó acá : inmigrantes judíos al Uruguay : historias de vida y perspectiva antropológica de la conformación de la comunidad judía uruguaya, contrastes culturales y procesos de enculturación) (2nd ed, 2005)
- 2005, The Jewish Community of Uruguay: Cultural Contrasts and Enculturation Processes (with Pablo Dabezies, Gerardo Caetano, and other authors).
See also
In Spanish: Teresa Porzecanski para niños
