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Anthology of the Festival
Since its foundation in 1991, 222 poets from 50 countries have participated in the International Poetry Festival in Medellín, among them :
. 163 poets from 20 countries in America as follows : 80 from Colombia, 10 from Cuba, 9 from Peru, 8 from Argentina, 6 from Chile, 6 from Venezuela, 6 from Brazil, 5 from Mexico, 5 from Costa Rica, 4 from North America, 4 from Ecuador, 4 from Panama, 4 from Uruguay, 2 from Guatemala, 1 from El Salvador, 1 from Nicaragua, 1 from Paraguay and 1 from Puerto Rico.
. 36 poets from 16 countries in Europe, as follows : 6 from France, 5 from Spain, 4 from Italy, 3 from Switzerland, 2 from Bosnia, 2 from The United Kingdom, 2 from Austria, 2 from Luxembourg, 2 from Portugal, 2 from Rumania, 1 from Germany,1 from Bulgaria, 1 from Greece, 1 from Holland, 1 from Hungary , and 1 from Iceland.
. 14 poets from 7 countries in Asia as follows : 4 from Japan, 4 from The People's Republic of China, 2 from India, 1 from Iran, 1 from Russia, 1 from Indonesia and 1 from Tuva.
. 6 poets from 6 countries in Africa thus : 1 from Angola, 1 from South Africa, 1 from The Congo, 1 from Cameroon, 1 from Mozambique and 1 from Egypt.
. 4 Australian poets, from Oceania.
Some poems written by many of these participating poets are presented below :
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| ARGENTINA |
Juan Gelman,
Rodolfo Alonso,
Marcos Silber,
Jorge Boccanera,
Daniel Samoilovich,
Esteban Moore,
Jorge Luis Madrazo,
Paulina Vinderman.
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| BOLIVIA |
Leonardo
García Pabón, Marcelo Arduz Ruiz, Blanca
Weithüchter.
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| BRAZIL |
Haroldo
de Campos, Ledo Ivo,
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, Lindolf
Bell, Thomas Albornoz,
Weydson
Barros Leal.
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| COLOMBIA |
Fernando
Charry Lara, Héctor
Rojas Herazo, Rogelio
Echavarría, Fernando Arbeláez, Mario Rivero, José
Manuel Arango, Juan Manuel
Roca, Giovanni
Quessep, Raúl
Henao, Eduardo Gómez, Henry
Luque Muñoz, Elkin Restrepo, Samuel Vásquez, Miguel
Méndez Camacho, Raúl Gomez Jattin, Samuel Jaramillo,
Eduardo Gómez, Jorge García Usta, Rafael Patiño,
Edmundo Perry, Margarita Cardona, Guillermo
Martínez González, William Ospina, Victor
Gaviria, Renata Durán, Alberto
Vélez, Rómulo
Bustos, Fernando
Linero, Horacio
Benavides, Rafael
del Castillo, Carlos
Bedoya, Joaquín
Mattos Omar, Orietta
Lozano, Miguel Iriarte, Omar Ortiz, Fernando
Rendón, Gabriel
Jaime Franco, Angela
García, Luis
Eduardo Rendón, Jairo
Guzmán, Yirama
Castaño, Fernando
Herrera, J. Arturo
Sánchez, Javier
Naranjo, Gustavo
Garcés, Eduardo Peláez, Sarah
Beatriz Posada, José Libardo Porras, Orlando
Gallo, Jesús
Rubén Pasos, Luz Helena Cordero, León Gil, Jorge
Mario Echeverri, Gabriel Jaime Arango, Omar
Castillo, Carlos Patiño, Carlos
Enrique Ortiz, Carlos Vázquez, Juan
Diego Tamayo, Daniel Jiménez, Aníbal Arias, Piedad
Bonnet, Pedro Arturo Estrada, Mery Yolanda Sánchez, Wilealdo
García, Felipe García, Samuel
Serrano, Hernán Vargas Carreño, Gloria Posada, Eufrasio
Guzmán, Ana Milena Puerta, Eufrasio
Guzmán, Gabriel Jaime Caro, Angela Tello, Wilson
Frank, John Sossa, Humberto Jarrin, Alvaro Marin, Víctor
López Rache, Orlando Sierra, Jorge García Usta, Monique
Facuseh.
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| COSTA RICA |
Osvaldo Sauma, Ana Istaru,
María Montero,
Jorge Arturo Venegas, José María Zonta.
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| CUBA |
Pablo
Armando Fernández, Víctor
Rodríguez Núñez, José
Pérez Olivares, Antonio Conte, Alberto Rodríguez
Tosca, Zoe Valdés, Marilyn Bobes, Antonio Ponte, Sigfredo
Ariel, Norberto
Codina.
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| CHILE |
Gonzalo
Rojas, Raúl Zurita,
Eduardo Llanos,
Floridor Pérez, Enrique Saldivia, Lorenzo
Aillapán Cayuleo (Comunidad Mapuche).
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| ECUADOR |
Jorge Enrique Adoum,
Miguel Donoso,
Margarita Laso,
Ulises Estrella.
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| EL SALVADOR |
Claribel Alegría.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
Timothy Pratt,
Julie Patton,
Margaret Randall,
John Oliver Simon.
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| GUATEMALA |
Humberto Ak'Abal,
Enrique Noriega.
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| HONDURAS |
José Luis Quezada,
Rigoberto Paredes,
Roberto Sossa.
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| MEXICO |
José Emilio Pacheco,
Coral Bracho,
Adolfo Castañón, Gloria Gervitz,
Elsa Cross.
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| NICARAGUA |
Juan Carlos Vilches.
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| PANAMA |
Manuel Orestes Nieto,
Manipiniktinia (tule-kuna),
Carlos Wong, Aristeides Turpana.
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| PARAGUAY |
Elvio Romero.
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| PERU |
Javier Sologuren,
Blanca Varela,
Antonio Cisneros,
Luis La Hoz,
Aida Alonso, Enrique Sánchez Hernani, Leoncio Bueno,
Pedro Granados,
Giovanna Pollarolo.
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| PUERTO RICO |
Anjelamaría Dávila.
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| URUGUAY |
Rafael Courtoisie, Ida
Vitale, Martha
Canfield, Marossa
di Giorgio.
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| VENEZUELA |
Juan
Calzadilla, Ramón Palomares, Edmundo Aray, Santos López,
Alicia Torres, Eugenio
Montejo.
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| GERMANY |
Tobías Burghardt.
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| AUSTRIA |
Ide Hintze, Wolfgang Bauer.
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| BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA |
Abdullah Sidran,
Nedzad Ibrisimovic.
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| BULGARIA |
Nikola Indjov.
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| SPAIN |
Carlos Sahagún,
Jesús López Pacheco,
Jesús Munárriz,
Antonio Carvajal,
Aurora Luque.
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| FRANCE |
Henri Deluy,
Claude Esteban, Liliane Giraudon,
Josée Lapeyrere,
Ives Prie,
Jean - Clarence Lambert.
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| GREECE |
Ersi
Sotiropoulou.
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| HOLLAND |
Jaap Blonk
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| HUNGARY |
Eva Toth.
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| THE UNITED KINGDOM |
Tony Harrison,
Benjamin Zephania.
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| ICELAND |
Birgitta
Jónsdóttir
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| ITALY |
Edoardo
Sanguinetti, Valerio
Magrelli, Paolo
Rufilli, Giulliano
Scabia.
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| LUXEMBOURG |
Anise
Koltz, Jean
Portante.
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| PORTUGAL |
Egito
Gonçalves, Rosa
Alice Branco.
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| RUMANIA |
Marin
Sorescu, Nicolae
Prelipceanu.
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| SWITZERLAND |
Rudolf
Peyer, Christian Viredaz, Claude
Darbellay.
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| THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA |
Sun
You Tian, Xiao Xue, Ji
Di Ma Jia, Yao
Shan Bi.
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| INDIA |
Neb Raj Batthia,
Ashok Vajpeyi. |
| INDONESIA |
Sutardji-Calzoum-Bachri
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| IRAN |
Djahanguir Mazhary.
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| JAPAN |
Gozo Yoshimasu, Mutsuo Takahashi,
Satoko Tamura, Tendo
Taijin.
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| RUSSIA |
Pável
M. Grushkó
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| TUVA |
Sainkho Namtchylak.
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| ANGOLA |
José Mena Abrantes
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| CAMEROON |
Paul
Dakeyo.
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| EGYPT |
Ahmed Abdelmoti Hegazy.
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| MOZAMBIQUE |
José
Craveirinha
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| SOUTH AFRICA |
Mazisi Kunene.
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| THE CONGO |
Kama Kamanda.
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| AUSTRALIA |
Grant
Caldwell, Lauren
Williams, Pi-O, Peter
Boyle.
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