The night fails, Noni Benegas

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The night fails, Noni Benegas

Presentation

Within the framework of the Ciudad Adentro [in the Rural Galaxy] exhibition, the latest book by one of its protagonists, Noni Benegas, Falla la noche, is presented. The event will include the participation of the author, José Tono Martínez, curator of the exhibition, and Ruth Toledano, journalist and poet. Noni Benegas (Buenos Aires, 1947), Writer, poet residing in Spain, lived, between 1980 and 1986, in Paris and Geneva, where she met José Ángel Valente, an encounter that will play a decisive role in her poetic path .

Since her arrival in Spain, she has collaborated in the press, carried out translations, and introduced relevant authors such as Paul Virilio, speed theorist, from whom she translated Aesthetics of Disappearance. She is a disciple of Pierre Bourdieu, she is the author of the preliminary study for the anthology Ellas tiene la palabra: Two decades of Spanish poetry. She has published eight collections of poems, the essence of which is collected in El ángel de lo súbito.

She has received numerous awards, including the United Nations Platero Prize in Geneva, the Miguel Hernández National Prize for Young Poetry; Rubén Darío National Prize or Esquío Poetry Prize. She is a jury member of the National Culture Awards, the Critics' Award and the Reina Sofía Award for Hispano-American Poetry. Between 1994/1995, through the cycle El saber gay, together with the poet and National Translation Award winner Mario Merlino, she introduced gay-lesbian culture at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and at the National Film Library with the cycle Homosexuality in the cinema. His works include Argonáutica (1984), with a prologue by José María Valverde, La Balsa de la Medusa (1986), Cartography Ardiente (1995), (2001), Fragments of an unknown newspaper (2004), Of that living touch (2009 ), Vertical Place (2011), Sacred Animals (2012) and Falla la noche (2022). Her work has made visible the marginalized role of women in the literary canon in anthologies such as Ellas tiene la palabra.

Thus, the fundamental problem for women writers was always to give voice to a subject who had always been treated as an object.

A scholar of "gay knowledge" and "sorority", an ethical principle that emerged from the awareness of female subordination, the latest selection of her writings bears an eloquent title: They resist. For Benegas, the feminine conscience advocates the vision of an alternative society with radical political implications, capable of changing the orientation of humanity.