Susana Rotker (3 July 1954 – 27 November 2000) was a Venezuelan journalist, columnist, essayist, and writer.^[1]

Biography

The daughter of Jewish immigrants, Susana Rotker graduated from Andrés Bello National University in Caracas in 1975, was an assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires,^[2] and received a doctorate in Hispanic literature from the University of Maryland in 1989.^[2] She was a professor of Latin American literature and director of the Rutgers Center for Hemispheric Studies in New Jersey.^[1]

She was a noted film critic in her column "La gran ilusión" in the Caracas newspaper El Nacional.^[3][4]

Around 1979, she met the Argentine intellectual Tomás Eloy Martínez exiled in Venezuela, with whom she had a daughter Sol Ana in 1986, and with whom she lived until the traffic accident that cost Rotker her life in 2000.^[2] She resided in Highland Park, New Jersey.^[2]

Books

• Isaac Chocron y Elisa Lerner: Los Transgresores De La Literatura Venezolana Reflexiones Sobre La Identidad Judía, 1991, ISBN 9802530778
• Bravo Pueblo: Poder, Utopia Y Violencia, Fondo Editorial Nave Va., ISBN 9806481135
• Ensayistas De Nuestra América, Editorial Losada, ISBN 9500304880, 9789500304887
• Ciudadanías del miedo, Nueva Sociedad, Caracas, 2000, 249 pp., ISBN 980-317-175-5
• The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, Oxford University Press
• The American Chronicles of Jose Marti: Journalism and Modernity in Spanish America, ISBN 0874519020
• La invención de la crónica [es], Fondo de cultura económica, ISBN 9789681678296, 968167829X^[5]
• Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 9780813530352
• Captive Women: Oblivion and Memory in Argentina, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 236 pp., ISBN 0-8166-4030-0

Awards

In 1991 she received the Casa de las Américas Prize for her work La invención de la crónica about José Martí.^[3]

She was a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 1997.^[1][6]

References

Further reading

• Martínez, Tomás Eloy (22 December 2000). "En memoria de Susana Rotker". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2018-08-08.