Rosabetty Muñoz, born in Ancud in 1960 and raised on Chiloé, defines her literary work as being deeply rooted on this island in southern Chile, which is also shrouded in myth. She works there as a poet, but also as a teacher at several schools. In her reading at the IAI, the poet will emphasize the special features - and, in her view, the growing necessity - of a literature based in the south of Chile and specifically in Chiloé.
Rosabetty Muñoz understands her listening to the many local voices and traditions and their poetic processing as a literature opposed to neoliberal extractivism and the eradication of rooted ways of life. For example, Técnicas para cegar a los peces (2019) poetically condenses the economic, social and cultural consequences of capitalist economic logics on the island. Her poetry collection Ligia (2019), which deals intensively with the subject of exile, also underlines how closely her work is interwoven with Chiloé. The anthology Tiempo de Guarda (2025), recently published on the occasion of the Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda, underlines the resilience and healing power that Rosabetty Muñoz attaches to words.
Rosabetty Muñoz has received numerous awards for her extensive literary work, including the Premio Pablo Neruda 2000 for her complete works, a nomination for the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 2020 and the Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda 2024 . Her work includes Canto de una oveja del rebaño (1981), En lugar de morir (1985), Hijos (1991), Baile de señoritas (1994), La santa. Historia de su elevación (1998), Sombras en El Rosselot (2002), Ratada (2005), En nombre de ninguna ( 2005), Ligia (2019), Técnicas para cegar a los peces ( 2019), Santo Oficio (2020), Ejercicios para vivir el confinamiento (2020) or La voz de la casa ( 2021).
The event will be held in Spanish.
Monday, 2.2.2026, 18:00 h
Escritura situada. Escritura amarrada a su puerto: Poetic reading and talk with Rosabetty Muñoz
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut ׀ Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), Potsdamer Str. 3, 10785 Berlin, Simón Bolívar Hall
Language: Spanish
Admission: free
The event takes place in cooperation with the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (external link, opens in a new window) and the Latin American Literature Festival Barrio (Bairro) Berlin (external link, opens in a new window).
Prior to this, Rosabetty Muñoz will be a guest at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin on January 29 as part of the three-day international symposium "Literatura chilena contemporánea en diálogo".
