Rita Guibert

Rita Guibert (December 5, 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – December 5, 2007 in New York, US) was an American author,[1] journalist (print, television, radio), editor, researcher and translator.

Rita Guibert
Born(1916-12-05)December 5, 1916
Buenos Aires, Argentina
DiedDecember 5, 2007(2007-12-05) (aged 91)
New York City, USA
OccupationAmerican author, journalist, editor, researcher and translator
LanguageEnglish, Spanish
NationalityAmerican
EducationBS in chemistry
Alma materUniversidad de Buenos Aires
Years active1957-2007
Notable workSEVEN VOICES, Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert
SpousesRaúl Guibert (m.1941-1962); Herbert Herzberg (m.1990-2004)
ChildrenLidia Beatriz

Rita Guibert is best known as the author of the critically acclaimed[2] SEVEN VOICES Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert.[3][4] The Seven Voices are in-depth tape recorded interviews of Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Pablo Neruda in 1971, Miguel Angel Asturias in 1967, Octavio Paz in 1990 and Gabriel García Márquez in 1982. Specific interviews of Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges conducted by Rita Guibert including text that was not included in SEVEN VOICES Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert [3] were also reprinted.[5][6][7]

Guibert was a reporter at LIFE en Español,[8] collaborated at the Latin American Desk of Associated Press [9] and was a member of the board of contributors at Nuestro.[10] Her articles have appeared in the Paris Review,[11] Intellectual Digest,[12] Review 72,[13] Vista Magazine [14] and Revista Iberoamerica.[15][16] At ANACITEC, she was the Representative to the NGO-UN,[9][17] Vice President for Cultural Affairs and Editor of their newsletter.

Her personal interviews took her from the United States to Chile, England, France and Spain.[3] She interviewed Pablo Neruda in Isla Negra, Chile,[3] Jorge Luis Borges in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[3] Miguel Angel Asturias in Paris,[3] Octavio Paz in Churchill College, Cambridge,[3] Julio Cortázar in Paris,[3] Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona and New York City,[3] and Guillermo Cabrera Infante in London.[3] She accompanied Pablo Neruda to Stockholm when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.[3] After a few days in Stockholm, she traveled with Pablo Neruda and his wife to Warsaw to attend the Polish premiere of his play Splendor and Death of Joaquín Murieta.[3]

She translated multiple children's books into Spanish for Random House[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] Farrar Straus and Giroux,[26][27][28][29][30][31] E.P. Dutton [32][33][34][35][36] and Dial Press,[37] short stories and educational material for Scholastic,[38] as well as art catalogs for Chase Manhattan Bank Program.[39] The Museum of Modern Art,[40] and American Museum of Folk Art.[41] She was editor of Estancias, Las Grandes Haciendas de Argentina.[42] The book was published simultaneously in three editions: English, French and Spanish.

In 2015 Random House published Seven Voices; Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert as an e-book in English and Spanish.[43][44]

Archives

The Princeton University Library's Rare Books and Special Collections Collection [45] announced the establishment of the Rita Guibert Collection of Latin American Authors in June 2015.[46] The collection includes audiocassette tapes containing her in-depth interviews with Latin American authors, including Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Manuel Puig, Carlos Fuentes and José Donoso as well as correspondence, interview and article drafts, galleys, proofs, and photographs associated with the author's work.

References
  1. Wood, Michael (April 19, 1973). "Latins in Manhattan". The New York Review of Books.
  2. "Review of Seven Voices by Rita Guibert". Publishers Weekly. January 8, 1973.
  3. Rita Guibert (1973). Seven Voices Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0394468880.
  4. Rita Guibert (1974). Siete Voces, Los más grandes escritores Latinoamericanos se confiesan con Rita Guibert. Organización Editorial Novaro, S.A.
  5. Guibert, Rita (1998). Jose Luis Borges Conversations. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 42–75. ISBN 1-57806-076-1.
  6. Guibert, Rita (2008). Jose Luis Borges: Conversations. Ewen. pp. 53–97. ISBN 978-7-5327-4415-2.
  7. Guibert, Rita (2006). Conversations with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 31–58. ISBN 1-57806-783-9.
  8. "Books: South Toward Home". TIME. April 2, 1973.
  9. Graciela Melgarejo (1989). "Interview of Rita Guibert". La Nación.
  10. Rita Guibert (May 1977). "Manuel Puig: Movies, Machismo and Masks". Nuestro Magazine.
  11. Rita Guibert (Spring 1971). "Pablo Neruda, The Art of Poetry No. 14". The Paris Review. Spring 1971 (51).
  12. Rita Guibert. "The New Latin Wave, Octavio Paz". Intellectual Digest.
  13. Rita Guibert. "Octavio Paz Talks about Pets, Poetry and the History of Poetry". Review 72.
  14. Rita Guibert. "Mexico: Splendors of Seven Centuries". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. Rita Guibert. "Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Conversacion sobre Tres tristes tigres". Revista Iberoamerica.
  16. Rita Guibert. "Octavio Paz: Amor y Erotismo". Revista Iberoamerica.
  17. Edward Shaw. "Sharing the benefits of the brain-drain". Buenos Aires Herald.
  18. Weitzel, Rick; Swanson, Maggie (1992). Big Bird's Bedtime Story (Un cuento para la hora de dormir de Big Bird) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House/Children's Television Workshop. ISBN 0-679-83471-0.
  19. Berenstain, Stan; Berenstain, Jan (1992). Berenstain Bears in The Dark (Los Osos Berenstain en la oscuridad) (Spanish edition translated by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-679-83470-2.
  20. Berenstain, Stan; Berenstain, Jan (1992). Berenstain Bears and The Trouble with Friends (Los Osos Berenstain y las peleas entre amigos) (Spanish edition translated by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-679-84006-0.
  21. Berenstain, Stan; Berenstain, Jan (1993). Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV (Los Osos Berenstain y demasiada television) (Spanish edition translated by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-679-84007-9.
  22. Berenstain, Stan; Berenstain, Jan (1993). Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday (Los Osos Berenstain y demasiada fiesta) (Spanish edition translated by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-785-71678-5.
  23. Berenstain, Stan; Berenstain, Jan (1993). Berenstain Bears & The Babysitter (Los Osos Berenstain y la niñera) (Spanish edition translated by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-679-84746-4.
  24. Berenstain, Stan; Berenstain, Jan (1994). Berenstain Bears, No Girls Allowed (Los Osos Berenstain no se permiten niñas) (Spanish edition translated by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-679-85431-2.
  25. Berenstain, Stan; Berenstain, Jan (1992). Berenstain Bears' Moving Day in The Dark (Los Osos Berenstain dia de mudanza) (Spanish edition translated by Rita Guibert ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-679-85430-4.
  26. Zemach, Margot (1988). The Three Little Pigs, An Old Story (Los Tres Creditos, Un Cuento Tradicional) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-44572-9.
  27. Crowcher, Helen (1991). Rain Forest (El Bosque Tropical) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-30900-0.
  28. Cowcher, Helen (1993). Antarctic (Antártida) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-30370-3.
  29. Morozumi, Atsuko (1996). Gorilla (Un gorilla) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  30. Morozumi, Atsuko (1996). My Friend Gorilla (Mi amigo gorilla) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-44831-0.
  31. Freschet, Gina (2000). Naty's Parade (La Procesión de Naty) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-36136-3.
  32. Kraus, Robert (1977). Milton The Early Riser (Milton el Madrugador) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). E.P. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-61560-1.
  33. Kraus, Robert (1977). Herman The Helper (Jose el gran ayudante) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). E.P. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-61563-6.
  34. Kraus, Robert (1977). Leo the Late Bloomer (Leo el Capullo Tardio) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). E.P. Dutton.
  35. Steig, William (1977). Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Silvestre y la Piedrita Mágica) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Windmill Books and E.P. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-61562-8.
  36. McPhail, David (1996). Pigs Aplenty: Pigs Galore! (Cerdos a montones, cerdos a granel) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). E.P. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-45590-6.
  37. Hakes Noble, Trinka (1996). The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash (El dia qu la boa de Jimmy se comió la ropa) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Dial Press. ISBN 0-8037-2035-1.
  38. Cowcher, Helen (1997). Antarctic (Antártida) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). Scholastic Cassettes, Scholastic Inc. ISBN 0-590-90503-1.
  39. Phillips, Lisa (1992). Photoplay 1992, Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). The Chase Manhattan Bank Art Program.
  40. Catalog of exhibition: Latin American Prints from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Grabados Latinoamericanos del museo de Arte Moderno, Nueva York) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). International Council of the Museum of Modern Art and Center for Inter-American Relations. 1974.
  41. Hollander, Stacy C (1991). Tradition and Change in American Folk Art (Tradiciones que sobreviven en el arte folklorico americano) (Spanish translation by Rita Guibert ed.). American Museum of Folk Art Museum in association with United States Information Agency.
  42. Saenz Quesada, Maria (1992). Estancias, Las Grandes Haciendas de Argentina. Abbeville Press. ISBN 1-55859-398-5.
  43. Rita Guibert (2015). Seven Voices Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert ebook. Vintage Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
  44. Rita Guibert (2015). Siete Voces, Los más grandes escritores latinoamericanos se confiesan con Rita Guibert, eBook edition. Vintage Español, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
  45. "Princeton University Library Rare Books and Special Collections Manuscripts Collection (MSS) (C1502 )". Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  46. "Rita Guibert Collection of Latin American Authors (C1502)". 6 July 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
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