Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga Biography | Poet

Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga, (born 1944) is a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist. She is Secretary General of the Board of Governors of the twenty-member Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española. Her novel Los nudos del silencio (The knots of silence) has been translated into French and Italian. On December 16, 2011 Ferrer was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Paraguay by President Fernando Lugo. She is married with four children.