Maybell Lebron

Maybell Lebron (born 23 September 1923) is an Argentine-born writer of short stories, poems, and novels, based in Paraguay. She is the founder of Associated Paraguayan Writers, and has won Paraguay's National Prize for Literature.

Maybell Lebron
Born (1923-09-23) 23 September 1923
Córdoba, Argentina
OccupationWriter
Spouse
Juan S. Netto
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(died 1998)​
Children3
AwardsNational Prize for Literature (2015)

Early life

Maybell Lebron was born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1923, and has lived in Paraguay since 1930.[1][2] She married Doctor Juan S. Netto, and they had three children. She started writing once her children were older, and as a writer she is self-taught.

Literary career

Lebron's first book was the poetry collection Puente a la luz, published by Editorial Arandura. This was followed by the short story books Memoria sin tiempo and Los ecos del silencio. The novel Pancha is one of her best-known works.[1] She also wrote the novel Cenizas de un rencor, and the biography of her late husband, Juan S. Netto: Un hombre.

She has been part of the Short Story workshop, directed by Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá for several years, and has directed the Reading Room, a group of young writers with whom she meets periodically to hold literary discussions.[3][4]

During her long career she has won several important honors, such as first prize in the 1989 Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin contest, the Néstor Romero Valdovinos Award from the newspaper Hoy in 1993, the Roque Gaona Award in 2000, and Paraguay's National Prize for Literature in 2015.[1][5][6]

Associated Paraguayan Writers

Associated Paraguayan Writers (Spanish: Escritoras Paraguayas Asociadas) was founded in July 1997 by Maybell Lebron, Dirma Pardo Carugatti, and Luisa Moreno Sartorio, with the aim of promoting literature written by women in Paraguay – both its creation and its dissemination. During Lebron's presidency, the anthologies Peldaños de papel and Poemas were published.[7]

References
  1. Homenaje al Escritor Maybell Lebron [Tribute to the Writer Maybell Lebron] (PDF) (in Spanish). Senate of Paraguay. 11 November 2015. p. 3. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  2. "Maybell Lebrón" (in Spanish). Portal Guaraní. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  3. "'La lectura me dio un gran crecimiento literario', afirma el fundador del club del libro" ['Reading Gave Me Great Literary Growth', Says the Founder of the Book Club]. ABC Color (in Spanish). 21 September 2005. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  4. Méndez-Faith, Teresa (1996). Breve diccionario de la literatura paraguaya [Short Dictionary of Paraguayan Literature] (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). El Lector. p. 151. OCLC 917215892. Retrieved 13 September 2022 – via Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library.
  5. "Maybell Lebrón y su poemario 'Ayer, tal vez mañana'". ABC Color (in Spanish). 12 October 2003. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  6. "Escritora Maybell Lebrón gana el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Paraguay" [Writer Maybell Lebron Wins Paraguay's National Prize for Literature] (in Spanish). Asunción. EFE. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  7. Ferrer, Renée (2 September 2014). "Sobre Poemas, de Maybell Lebron" [On Poems, by Maybell Lebron]. Revista Y (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 September 2022.
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