Esther Dita Kohn de Cohen, founder of the Anna Frank Space: (in the Holocaust, the family) "there were more or less about 500 people; we don't know exactly how many were killed, that was terrible”
Julio Emilio Moliné, co-director “Joan Baez in Latin America: There but for fortune” (clandestine documentary, 1981): “Joan received death threats, and was banned, persecuted…”
Elisa Lerner, writer: “Solitude is the writer's homeland”
Susy Dembo, visual artist: "Engraving is alchemical, it is magical"
Nava Semel, writer: And the Rat Laughed with Jane Fonda
José Pulido, poet: “I'm like a castaway clinging to his tongue”
Rolando Peña, visual artist: "We baptized the group in a bathtub, and the godfather was Andy Warhol"
Carlos Giménez, theater director: “Our country is the empire of consummated facts, of de facto culture”
Beatriz Iriart, poet: “By when I was 10, I was an old woman already. Writing poetry was a way of transmuting that pain”
Dinapiera Di Donato, poet: "Imagination creates versions of life, but I cannot understand life without a version."
María Lamadrid, founder of "África Vive": “We are the first disappeared people in Argentina”
Mariana Rondón, filmmaker: "During my childhood, I thought cinema was only one movie: Yellow Submarine"
Roland Streuli, photographer: “My life is color, I am not an opaque or black and white person”
Viviana Marcela Iriart (1958) is an Argentine-Venezuelan writer and interviewer. She studied journalism for a year in La Plata, Argentina, but for being a pacifist, she was exiled by the Argentine dictatorship in 1979. Venezuela granted her asylum, and four months later, at the age of 21, she wrote her first professional report... on Julio Cortázar, an interview included in this book.
She has published novels, plays, and three books on Carlos Giménez: ¡Bravo Carlos Giménez!, Carlos Giménez el genio irreverente, and María Teresa Castillo-Carlos Giménez-Caracas International Theater Festival 1973-1992.
She is the founder of the publishing house Escritoras Unidas & Cía. Editoras and the cultural blog of the same name.
INTERVIEWS, with graphic design by Jairo Carthy, is available on AMAZON in paperback and ebook versions: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8RDDP2X
