Rosabetty Muñoz

This is the first poetry anthology (so far) belonging to the author, whose selection and prologue were written by Kurt Folch. These collected work, winner of the Poetry Altazor Award of the National Arts in 2013 and composed of ten poem books —two unpublished yet— and an unpublished work written in prose, has as main characteristic the approach to the Chiloé's community, city where Rosabetty was born, grew up and, currently, is living. The author addresses issues such as rebelliousness and hopelessness, the abuse of authority by a few "invaders", and even those more controversial issues that have a greater impact on the society such as abortion, sexual abuse and incest.

Rosabetty Muñoz has received several awards, among which are the 2000 Pablo Neruda Award for her work as a whole, and the National Book Council [es] Award for Sombras en El Rosselot (2002) as the best unpublished work. In addition, she was nominated in the literary arts category, poetry mention of the 2009 Altazor Award for National Arts for En Nombre de Ninguna, referred to as a "remarkable contribution to world literature (...) [and] a deep and painful poetic entry in one of the many torn sides of the body of Chile," while in the 2012 edition, she won the award for Polvo de huesos.

According to Iván Carrasco's description of ethnocultural discourse in Chilean poetry, whose authors include Rosabetty Muñoz, in her poetic production there is a sustained appreciation of the presence of syncretism between Catholicism and indigenous beliefs, observing a high intercultural and interethnic content (ethnocultural poetry). Furthermore, while some authors classify her within a group of writers assigned to the poetry of Southern Chile, Carrasco – referring to Hijos (1991) and Baile de señoritas (1994) – frames her work within the modern poetry of Chiloé, whose representatives use "a Spanish-Chilliche-Chono intercultural lexicon and a high degree of awareness of poetic movements."

She published her first book of poems, Canto de una oveja del rebaño, in 1981 as a university student in Valdivia. She also wrote most of her second book in that city, En lugar de morir, which was released in 1987. Her third book, Hijos (1991), was written, as she says, "after a black period [...], in which I thought the well of my poetry had run dry."

Rosabetty Muñoz Serón (born 9 September 1960) is a Chilean poet and professor who is linked to the cultural movements Chaicura [es] from Ancud, Aumen [es] from Castro, and Índice and Matra from Valdivia. She is a recipient of the Pablo Neruda Award and the Poetry Altazor Award of the National Arts.