Juan Gelman
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Emerging from Buenos Aires' Villa Crespo district, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants learned to read at three and was steeped in Russian and European literature under his brother's guidance, an upbringing that sparked a lifelong devotion to poetry. After joining literary circles and working as a journalist and United Nations translator, he produced more than twenty poetry collections beginnin…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources