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BIO Veronica Pamoukaghlian was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on September 8th, 1973. Her Armenian grandparents had come to Uruguay from Marash, Turkey, in the eve of the XXth century. She has received several Poetry Awards and appeared in publications in Uruguay, Argentina, Canada, Puerto Rico and the US, such as Arena Cultural, The Taj Mahal Review, The Big Times News, Zapatos Rojos and Prism International. She is scheduled to be a special guest for the next Odyssey Dreams Poetry Festival in Jordan. Besides writing poetry in five languages, and teaching English Literature, she is also a filmmaker and music producer in her home country. She has been very active in the promotion of traditional Uruguayan music, specially the one with African Candombe roots. In 2006 she was awarded a Screenwriting scholarship from IBERMEDIA, which will take her to Valencia, Spain, from October 2006 to June 2007, to develop a feature screenplay, to be produced in 2008. She has been a member of MENSA INTERNATIONAL since 1998. facebook.com/musicpoetry POETRY raulthemovie.com FILM PRODUCTION http://THEWANDERLIFE.COM WRITER´S BLOG