Javier Viveros (born 13 September 1977) is a Paraguayan writer. He is active member of Academia de la Lengua Guaraní, also of Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española, corresponding member of Real Academia Española and former Vice-president of the Paraguayan Writers Society. He currently serves as the Minister of the Secretariat of Language Policies of Paraguay.
Life He received a master's degree in Language and Literature from the National University of Asunción and Comparative Literature (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina). He has traveled through several genres, among which it can be mentioned: poetry, short stories, children's literature, scripts for theater, comics and movies.
He regularly collaborates with the "Correo Semanal", a cultural supplement of the newspaper Última Hora. He has also worked as a university professor. His book of ñe'ẽnga (folkloric phrases) and the one of stories titled "Underneath the radar" were distributed to country level with the newspaper ABC Color. Also, the works A bed for Mimi and Alonsí were distributed through the "magic box", a product from the fast food multinational Burger King, thanks to the trades of the Alfaguara publishing house. Gunpowder and dust, the work of war cartoon about the Chaco War with scripts by Javier Viveros, was published in weekly fascicles by the newspaper Última Hora.
In the role of editor he has published Punta karaja, an anthology of Paraguayan football soccer stories. In addition, as publisher he has published the illustrated album, Mrs. Jurumi, under his own publishing label. He has written scripts and directed for the Servilibro publishing house the collection "Paraguayan Literature in Comic Strips", that took to the comics format several stories of great Paraguayan authors, among which Augusto Roa Bastos, Gabriel Casaccia, Helio Vera and Josefina Plá.
Either as a guest speaker or as a member of the official delegation of Paraguay, he has participated in book fairs in Resistencia (Argentina), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Maldonado (Uruguay), La Paz (Bolivia) and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).
In 2012, his book of stories Handbook of fencing for elephants was published in Argentina by Ediciones Encendidas and in Spain by Ediciones Rubeo, in addition to the publication in Paraguay, by the publisher Arandurã. The Tokyo publisher Happa-no-kofu published a Japanese translation of the haikus in his book On a tile. It has been included in anthologies of Germany, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Spain, Scotland, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. The Chilean publisher "Cuarto propio" published For the love of the football: eleven cracks of fiction soccer, a collection of football soccer stories on a continental level (one story per country). His story "Football Soccer S.A." was selected to integrate this collection, which also includes writers like Juan Villoro (México) and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia). That work was translated into English and published as Idols and Underdogs, by the Scottish publisher "Freight Books."
The number 85 of the magazine Luvina (published by the University of Guadalajara) selected him among the most outstanding Latin American writers of less than 40 years of age. Regarding the selection criteria, the committee expresses "Luvina offers in this issue a collection of original voices that are accompanied and contrast each other, voices with bold proposals and contemporary literary structures, managing to settle the map of vicissitudes extended in this territory".
He was Vice-president of the Society of Writers of Paraguay from July 2016 to July 2018.
Bibliography Short stories 2008 - Ingenierías del insomnio 2009 - Urbano, demasiado urbano 2012 - Manual de esgrima para elefantes 2015 - Fantasmario - Cuentos de la Guerra del Chaco 2021 - Vríngo luisõ 2023 - Páginas de hierro 2025 - Omombe'uva'ekue Jasy ikerañe'ẽme
Poetry 2007 - Dulce y doliente ayer 2008 - En una baldosa 2009 - Mensajeámena 2009 - Panambi ku'i Theatre 2018 - Flores del yuyal Children's literature 2013 - Una cama para Mimi 2014 - Alonsí 2017 - Tana, la campana 2017 - La señora Jurumi 2018 - La carrera chaqueña 2018 - Pepo y Lalo 2018 - ¿De quién es esta pluma? 2018 - Mymba saraki 2018 - Siete cántaros de lluvia 2018 - Alarma en el takuru 2019 - Cinco dientes de león 2019 - Mosi en el Chaco 2019 - Los indomables 2019 - Toni en las alturas 2019 - Tres dinocuentos 2019 - Luna y los fuegos artificiales 2019 - Historias de Animalia 2020 - Sonata para cigarra y piano 2022 - La mudanza de Lito 2022 - El tatakua de la abuela 2022 - Lito y el poncho para'i 2023 - La ardilla pilla 2023 - Superclásico jurásico 2023 - Flaminio el dragón 2024 - Hasta siempre, Cucú 2024 - La vaca michi 2024 - Para sanar a un ayurasaurio 2024 - Hotel de insectos 2024 - Kamby, el oso hormiguero albino 2024 - Vacaciones en Piribebuy 2024 - El arcoíris desteñido 2024 - La revolución de los amberesaurios 2024 - San Juan en el valle 2024 - El arcoíris desteñido 2024 - Chito y la hermana mayor de todas las artes 2024 - El buen olfato de Killo Zorrillo 2024 - Un regalo para Janto 2024 - La biblioteca callejera de la señorita Tokãi 2025 - Animales / Mymbakuéra 2025 - El señor Karanda'y y otras canciones para pintar 2025 - Dormir más y otras canciones para pintar 2026 - En el laberinto de Filadelfia 2026 - ¿Adónde van las medias que se traga el lavarropas? 2026 - ¡Rayas en la playa! 2026 - El misterio de la Santa Caverna 2026 - Cuando sea grande - Jurumi 2026 - Cuando sea grande - Tujuju 2026 - Cuando sea grande - Tatú bolita 2026 - Cuando sea grande - Piraju 2026 - Cuando sea grande - Muã 2026 - Cuando sea grande - Teju pytã 2026 - Angirũbot
Comic 2013 - Pólvora y polvo 2015 - Epopeya - Guerra del Chaco 2016 - Epopeya - Binacional (various authors) 2016 - Epopeya - Guerra Guasu (various authors) 2017 - Carpincheros, short story by Roa Bastos 2017 - Audiencia privada, short story by Roa Bastos 2017 - Pirulí, short story by Roa Bastos 2017 - El crack, short story by Roa Bastos 2017 - El bosque detrás de la lluvia, short story de Roa Bastos 2017 - El doctor Lluvioso, short story by Josefina Plá 2017 - El finadorã, short story written in guarani by Tadeo Zarratea 2017 - Ka'i rembiasakue, short story written in guarani by Feliciano Acosta 2019 - Civilización aliada, Paraguay retã rekove #11 2020 - Epopeya del 70 2020 - Epopeya - Penurias y fatigas (various authors) 2021 - Te lo cuento en cómic - Humor 2021 - Dago - Hecho en Paraguay (various authors) 2023 - Epopeya - Pólvora y polvo 2024 - Senda embrujada, novel by María Eugenia Garay Novel 2019 - Réquiem del Chaco 2019 - El burbujero maravilloso (with Diana Viveros) Opera 2021 - Cándido López 2023 - Atyrá retablo (with Andrés Colmán Gutiérrez) Biographies 2020 - Branislava Sušnik. La científica implacable 2020 - Silvio Pettirossi. El acróbata del aire 2020 - Serafina Dávalos. Pionera paraguaya del feminismo 2020 - Manuel Ortíz Guerrero. El poeta del pueblo 2021 - Arsenio Erico. El rey del gol 2021 - Gabriel Casaccia. Fundador de la narrativa paraguaya moderna
Awards and honours Finalist of the 2009 edition of the International Short Story Award "Juan Rulfo", with his short story "Misterio JFK", selected among the nearly six thousand texts sent to the contest. Honorable Mention in the "Roque Gaona" Prize, 2013 edition (Fencing Manual for Elephants). Second prize in the 1st edition of the International Screenwriting Competition "Roa Cinero", organized by the Roa Bastos Foundation. Panambi Honorific Award given by 26 Festival Internacional de Cine de Paraguay. "Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature 2018", given by the PEN Club of the United States to the book "Inventory of ghosts - Tales of the Chaco War" (Fantasmario). Finalist of "Concurso Regional de Nouvele EMR 2018", organized by Editorial Municipal de Rosario (Argentina), finalist book is the novel "De Sanctis". Roque Gaona Award 2018 for the book "Flores del yuyal". Honorable Mention in Premio Municipal de Literatura 2020 for "Réquiem del Chaco". Premio República "Luque 2022". Asunción City Poetry Prize "Teodoro S. Mongelós" 2023. Augusto Roa Bastos Medal, 2024.
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External links
Official blog Profile in Paraguayan Writer's Society portal Profile in Portal Guaraní