Suleika Ibáñez

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Suleika Ibáñez Iglesias (8 December 1930 – 7 March 2013) was a Uruguayan writer, teacher and translator. She was born in Montevideo to poets Roberto Ibáñez and Sara de Ibáñez, and she had sisters Ulalume González de León and Solveig Ibáñez. She married artist Vladimiro Collazo and they had a daughter, Marcia Collazo; another daughter, Galia, died young, and Suleika dedicated her 2002 book Galia, con quien tanto quería to her.

Ibáñez taught literature in the Lavalleja Department (Melo), at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas and at the Catholic University of Uruguay. She won numerous awards, including the Givré prize in Buenos Aires (1976), Ediciones de la Banda Oriental (1985) and La Hora (1986); in 1989 she received two first prizes in poetry and narrative from the Departmental Intendency of Montevideo and shared a dramaturgy prize with Ricardo Prieto from TAE. In 1998 she won first prize from the Academia Nacional de Letras for an essay on Juana de Ibarbourou and received an honorable mention from the Biblioteca Nacional for an essay on César Vallejo. In 2010 she was honored with the Cultural Career Award at the Poets of the Two Shores Congress in Punta del Este by Botella al Mar. Suleika Ibáñez died in Montevideo on 7 March 2013.