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Cristina Peri Rossi is a Uruguayan-Spanish novelist and poet born in 1941 in Montevideo. She went into exile in Spain in 1972 to escape political persecution under Uruguay's military dictatorship, eventually becoming a Spanish citizen. She has lived in Barcelona for most of the past fifty years, and her work engages ceaselessly with the experience of exile, displacement, and political repression. Read more →