Nora Zaga interviews Laura Devetach

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Published: Dec 13, 2023
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Children's literature; Laura Devetach; Interview;

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Nora Zaga
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Laura Devetach (Interviewee)

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Interview with Laura Devetach, Argentine writer, poet, essayist and intellectual,


conducted in Córdoba in May 2023.

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Zaga, N., & Devetach (Interviewee), L. (2023). Nora Zaga interviews Laura Devetach. Heterotopías, 6(12), 1–10. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/43510
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Vol. 6 No. 12 (2023): Discourses, representations, and appropriations of the contemporary city. A look at urban habitation
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Author Biographies

Nora Zaga, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Nora Zaga is psychology and artist, she is a reference for cultural projects that, in the 60s, 70s and 80s, promoted critical ways of making and thinking about interactions between art, teaching, research and politics, which still have resonances in the scene from Córdoba, Argentina and Latin America.

From a sensitive and reflective perspective, in the interview work and creation methodologies are recorded, in relation to her journeys through the University Choir (National University of Córdoba, UNC), the Total Workshop of the Theater Department (Faculty of Arts, UNC), the Nora and Delia Duo, the Popular Song Movement, the Cultural Front, Otrarte Latin Anerican (in Mexico, during her exile).

The exchange also highlights the place of women and dissidence in the 70s; the experiences gone through by the last dictatorship in Argentina and exile; memory configuration; shared-making; transformation as her way of being in the world and connecting with people, objects, nature.

 

Laura Devetach (Interviewee)

María Laura Devetach (1936) was born in Reconquista, province of Santa Fe, into an immigrant family of Slavic origin. First as a teacher and later as a Bachelor of Arts, she taught at all educational levels, both in rural and urban environments, and was even a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba, tirelessly promoting the formation of readers. She is a writer, poet and essayist. Her stories are mostly addressed to children, although not exclusively. She has written plays and radio and television scripts and has ventured into journalism. Since her first short story El Señor Pérez, the list of texts and books published is very long, and they have been read by parents, children and grandchildren: La torre de cubos, Monigote en la arena, El ratón que quería comererse la luna, El pez dorado, among many other titles. Several of her stories were banned by the dictatorship. She was one of the intellectuals who lived the "insilio" in Buenos Aires. With the return to democracy, a new time of rescue and the coining of literary-critical paradigms that write and rewrite these stories began. Laura and other authors join the task.

She received numerous national and international recognitions and awards, among them the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the National University of Córdoba, whose invitation summarizes her contribution to culture and education: "Her literary work is very valuable, both for children and adults. He has made a continuous work in favor of the dissemination of Children's and Young Adult Literature, contributing to the "construction of the reading path" that provides reading opportunities to children and young people of several generations. His work and actions are projected in the effort to generate spaces for intellectually free children in a complex world" (Rectorado de la UNC - November 19, 2008).