# Bella Clara Ventura

Bella Clara Ventura is a Colombian-Mexican director, screenwriter, producer, novelist, and poet who currently lives in Israel.

## Life

Ventura was born in 1947 in Bogota, Colombia to Jewish parents. She went on to study in Paris, France and currently resides in Israel.

## Career

Ventura was a director, screenwriter and film producer for 10 years, receiving awards for her productions. She is considered one of the pioneers of cinema in the 70s in Colombia, along with Ciro Duran, Mario Ventura Mitrotti, and Joyce. For 25 years, she has devoted herself to literature.
She has been invited to literary events in United States, Sweden, France, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Spain, Puerto Rico, Mexico, India, Hungary, and Israel. He has also been invited to give lectures around the world, most recently in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico in 2015. She is currently writing a new novel "Flight of Love "and new poems in conjunction with Ernesto Kahan.
Bella Clara Ventura writes articles for various news media, radio program director, and yoga teacher what Machado says that "only makes walking."

## Published works
### Poems

* Hechizos de bosque, 2000.
* Liberté, hôtesse du coeur, 2012.
* Blind Faith.
* "Diaspora and Awe" 1995.
* "Far" 2000.
* "Spells Forest" 2001, Region I Without Borders without Borders Region II,
* "Guest of light" 2004,
* "Spells and retablos" 2004
* "Girl Inside "2004 Glimpses of Light 2006,
* 2008 Oasis of an awakening,"
* trees of Milk and Honey
* "Eros in Canto (Editorial Black Sheep and Casa del Poeta Peruano 2010) -.
* Peace Sicaria tear (Editorial Ovaje Black and Alejo editions Peru 2011),
* 55 days without you, Editions du Cygne, 2015
* Beings of Light in as new process about to be released in Madrid poems.
In the poems "Beings of Light" published in Chile and soon poetry anthology Bella Clara Ventura out in Madrid published by Ediciones Editorial Lord Byron in 2016. The story is not alien, has over 20 anthologized and translated in several parts of the world, with wide recognition and awards outlined below.

### Novels

* Almamocha, 1993.
* Lo que la Vida Quiera, 2000.
* El Viento de la Sombra, 2003.
** recognized as a best seller in the Miami Herald
* Armando fuego, 2014.
* La voix de la passion, 2014.
* El amor en los tiempos del coronavirus, 2020.
* "Contigo learned 2007 Editores Spain Lord Byron,
* Trees of Milk and Honey (2009)
* HOSTAGE OF MEMORY (novel) Editorial Oveja Negra, December. 2009,
* Eros in singing (poems, Editorial Oveja Negra and House of the Peruvian poet 2010 Peace Sicaria Teardrop (poems, Editorial Oveja Negra and Alejo Editions Peru 2011).
* The Voice of Violence (editorial Black Sheep, and Alejo Editions Peru novel 2011)
* TO AFRICA IN MY SKIN (Lord Byron Editions 2014), with the Editorial Mundibook - Madrid;.
* "Canada forever" process 2015.

## Positions

* Vice President of Organización Mundial de Trovadores- O.M.T.- Israel.
* Ambassador of the peace organization based in Geneva.
* Embrace group representative Uruguay Brazil.
* Former ambassador of Poets of the World.
* IFLAC former ambassador to Colombia (Agency peace in art and literature).
* Delegate of the Society of French Poets.
* Honorary president of the Hispano-American Union of Letters (UHE).
* Representative of the House of Peruvian Poets.
* Vocal Pen Colombia.
* Chosen as one of the top 50 women of Culture (Saint Thomas Aquinas University, Bogotá) 2008.

## Awards

* First Poem Award Guadalquivir, (Spain, 2011)
* First prize El Rosal, (mother poem, University of Miami, 2011)
* First place in Dios Mío Contest, (Israel, 2011).
* First prize in Wings of Poetry, (Chile, 2012).
* Rosetta Poetry Prize, (Turkey, 2013).
* Honorary Doctorate of the World Academy of Culture and Arts (USA, 2011)
* And a special thanks to the work (Israel, 2015).