Paola Rocío Senseve Tejada (born 29 March 1987) is a Bolivian writer, poet, and feminist activist.
She is the recipient of the 2019 Yolanda Bedregal National Poetry Award, the 2nd National Award for New Writers, and the Santa Cruz National Literature Award.
Biography Paola Senseve Tejada was born in Cochabamba on 29 March 1987. She studied psychology at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. , she resides in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Senseve recounts that her passion for literature began in adolescence. In 2005, at the age of 17, she won the newspaper El Deber short story contest, and a year later she achieved third place in the literature contest at the Expociencia at the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University, in the short story category.
In 2008, during the presentation of the National Award for New Writers, in which Senseve took first place with her work Vaginario, researcher Carlos Hugo Molina, along with jury member Ronald Méndez, highlighted her literary quality, considering her an important contributor to Bolivian literature.
Feminist activism In her writings, Senseve emphasizes the role of women both in her immediate family and in her wider social environment.
During the ceremony for the 2019 Yolanda Bedregal National Poetry Award, which Senseve received for her poetry collection Codex Corpus, she made a series of remarks highlighting the gaps, violence, and invisibility that women in literature have faced throughout history – and still face – in the world and in the region. These included:
Awards and recognition 2nd National Award for New Writers from the Book Chamber and Petrobras, 2008 Santa Cruz National Literature Award, 2011 Yolanda Bedregal National Poetry Award for Codex Corpus, 2019
Works Vaginario (2008) Soy Dios (2011) Ego (2014) Codex Corpus (2019)
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