Odetta in Babylon and the Canada Express

About Gregorio Kohon

Gregorio Kohon was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. He has published four books of poetry in Spanish: Puntos de Partida (1963) Ebrio Sale el Sol (1967) Odetta en Babilonia y el Rápido a Canadá (1968) and El Estilo del Deseo (2008). His novel Papagayo Rojo Pata de Palo (2003) was a finalist in manuscript form for the 2001 Fernando Lara Prize and was published in English as Red Parrot Wooden Leg in 2007. He moved to England in 1970 where he studied and worked with R. D. Laing and his colleagues in the anti- psychiatry movement qualifying as a psychoanalyst of the British Psycho-Analytical Society in 1979. From early 1988 to December 1994 he lived in Australia where he co-founded and directed The Brisbane Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has edited and published a number of books on psychoanalysis many of which have been translated into French Italian Polish Swedish Portuguese German Spanish and Japanese.