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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 an important Uruguayan anthropologist, a person who studies human societies and cultures. She is also a writer and a university professor.
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About Teresa Porzecanski
Teresa Porzecanski Cohen grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her family was Jewish. Her father came from Liepāja, Latvia, and was an Ashkenazi Jew. Her mother was a Sephardic Jew from Syria.
Teresa studied at the University of the Republic. She earned a degree in social work, which is about helping people and communities.
Her Work and Studies
Teresa's work often focuses on different groups of people in Uruguay. She has studied the Jewish communities and people of African descent. She also writes about how people from different backgrounds get along, and about unfair treatment or prejudice.
She has taught at several universities, including the Catholic University of Uruguay and the University of the Republic. From 1978 to 1981, she collected stories from Jewish immigrants. These stories were published in a book called Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay in 1986. This book helps us understand what life was like for these immigrants.
Teresa's fiction books explore ideas about who we are, how people adjust to new places, and how minorities face challenges. She also writes about the inner thoughts and feelings of women.
Awards and Recognition
Teresa Porzecanski has received many important awards for her work.
- In 1992, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. This is a special award that helps people do research. With this award, she studied Sephardic Jews and their old stories and traditions.
- She also received a Fulbright scholarship, which helps people study or teach in other countries.
- She got a Rockefeller Residency Grant to write her fiction books in Bellagio, Italy.
- The Ministry of Education in Uruguay gave her five awards.
- The city of Montevideo gave her two awards.
- She won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Critics Award in 1995.
- In 2004, she received the Morosoli Award for Literature.
Books by Teresa Porzecanski
Teresa Porzecanski has written many books, both fiction (made-up stories) and non-fiction (true stories and facts).
Fiction Books
- 1967, The Riddle and other stories (El acertijo y otros cuentos)
- 1979, Constructions (Construcciones)
- 1981, Sun Inventions (Invención de los soles)
- 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)
Non-fiction Books
- 1986, Life Stories of Jewish Immigrants to Uruguay (La vida empezó acá) (She wrote this with other authors like Pablo Dabezies and Gerardo Caetano.)
See also
In Spanish: Teresa Porzecanski para niños
