Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 7, 1956
With a degree and a master's degree in Anthropological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, a PhD in Hispanic Literature from El Colegio de México and a new member of the corporation, Liliana Weinberg has established herself as one of the most diligent researchers, editors, authors and critics of the essay written in Latin America. Promoter of a network of the essay genre in all the territories of Hispanic America and in the main centers of Hispanism in Europe and the United States, she has printed, through her essays, studies, monographs and anthologies, an innovative, literary and philosophical turn based on a first-hand knowledge of the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Alfonso Reyes and Carlos Fuentes. Thus, in his work one breathes cultural and expressive breadth of contemporary Latin American culture alive in the essay.
Among his works, we can mention Ezequiel Martínez Estrada and the interpretation of "Martín Fierro" (1992); The Essay, Between Paradise and Hell (2001); Latin American Literature, Decolonizing the Imagination (2004); Thresholds of the Essay (2004); Status of the Trial (2006); Pensar el ensayo (2007); The Essay in Search of Meaning (2014); American Library. A Poetics of Culture and a Politics of Reading (2014), and Six Essays in Search of Pedro Henríquez Ureña (2015).
In 1995 he received the National University Distinction for Young Academics in the area of Research in Humanities; in 1997 he was awarded the Lya Kostakowsky Annual Prize for Hispano-American Literary Essay; in 2005 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz received the recognition; in 2007 he won the Fourth International Essay Prize awarded by Siglo XXI Editores, the Autonomous University of Sinaloa and El Colegio de Sinaloa; in 2011 she was distinguished with an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and in 2013 the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí awarded her the National Prize for Socio-Humanistic Research. She currently serves as president of the Cultural History Committee of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History.
