Olga Elena Mattei

Olga Elena Mattei
Born 1933 (age 82–83)
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Occupation Poet
Nationality Colombian American
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Mattei and the second or maternal family name is Echavarría.

Olga Elena Mattei Echavarría (born 1933 in Arecibo) is a Puerto Rican-born Colombian poet. She has won several poetry awards in Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries. She has published around 16 books, all of them in Spanish.[1] In 1979 she participated in the "International Writers Program" at the University of Iowa (Usono).[2]

Awards

Up to 2009 she has achieved 18 national and international public recognitions, (among awards and condecorations). Her cantata Cosmofonía was performed for the first time on radio and TV in France in 1976 with music of the conductor Marc Carles. Her poem Cosmoagonia, with scientific (astronomy) and humanistic content, has been performed in eight important planetariums around the world such as New York City and Washington. Olga Elena Mattei's literature activities go from reporting, arts and music criticism. As a graduate in philosophy and arts by Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín she cooperates with the music critic column in the Medellin newspaper El mundo, in which she comments on, among others, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Medellin concerts. Besides, she is lecturer of arts and ancient cultures. Up to 2009 she has 16 publications and many others looking for publisher.[3]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Augusto Escobar Mesa: "Olga Elena Mattei Interrogadora del Universo Infinito".
  2. ↑ List of participants in International writers program in University of Iowa.
  3. ↑ Augusto Escobar Mesa: Op.Cit..
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