Sara Vanégas Coveña (Cuenca, October 19, 1950) is an Ecuadorian poet, writer, and teacher. She received a scholarship to attend the Goethe Institute in Munich in 1971, where she earned a doctorate in Germanistics. She has taught at the University of Munich and Bielefeld University, and is currently a professor at the Universidad del Azuay in Cuenca. She has been recognized as a Universal Ambassador of Peace and as a corresponding member of the Asociación Prometeo de Poesía, a gay and lesbian literary organization based in Madrid. Coveña is a two-time winner of the Jorge Carrera Andrade National Poetry Prize, receiving the award in both 2000 and 2004.
Works
Poetry
- 90 poemas (1981)
- Luciérnaga y otros textos (1982)
- Entrelíneas (1987)
- Indicios (1988)
- PoeMAR (1994)
- Más allá del agua (1998)
- Antología personal (2000)
- Al andar (2004)
- Literatura infantil: Yo soy chica (2005)
- Versos trashumantes (2004)
- Sara Vanegas Coveña. Poesía junta (2007)
- Mínima antología poética (2010)
- De la muerte y otros amores (2014)
- Poesía Ecuatoriana (Antología Esencial) (2019)
Prizes and Acknowledgements
- In 2000 and 2004, she won the Jorge Carrera Andrade National Poetry Prize.
- In 2001, she won the Hoja de Encina Prize of the Asociación Prometeo de Poesía.
- In 2017, she received the Doctor Matilde Hidalgo de Procel Award of Cultural Merit, bestowed by the National Assembly of Ecuador.