Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Rosalía de Castro, Spanish poet and novelist who wrote in both Galician and Spanish. It is considered among the great poets of the Spanish literature of the 19th century, as an incarnation and symbol of the Galician people. Rosalía de Castro …
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Biography of Francisca Aguirre, Spanish poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Francisca Aguirre Benito, Spanish poet and narrator. The late publication of her first collection of poems has meant that the name of Francisca Aguirre has been removed from the anthologies of her generation and that only recently has her recognition as a …
Biography of Ida Vitale, Uruguayan poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Ida Vitale, distinguished Uruguayan poet, translator, essayist, teacher and literary critic. Member of the artistic movement called “Generation of 45” and representative of “essentialist” poetry. Deserved tributes to the poet Ida Vitale Ida Vitale was chosen to receive the 2018 Cervantes …
Biography of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Cuban poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Spanish writer and poet of Romanticism. She is one of the key figures in Spanish-American romanticism and one of the forerunners of modern feminism. She was the first woman proposed for the Royal Spanish Academy and rejected …
Biography of Saint Teresa of Jesus, Spanish poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Santa Teresa with surnames Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila and Ahumada, although she generally used the name Teresa de Ahumada until she entered the Carmelite Order, then changing her name to Teresa de Jesús. She was such an extraordinary and unusual woman …
Biography of Alfonsina Storni, Argentine poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Alfonsina Storni , argentine poet and writer of modernism. Her work is prolific, vigorous and original. She was an excellent poet of love. In her verses, the romantic accent, lyrical depth and simplicity predominate. The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral met her …
Biography of Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Juana Inés de la Cruz, religious Mexican who stood out in a remarkable way as a lyrical writer. She is an extraordinary exponent of the Golden Age of literature in Spanish. In any selection of famous Mexican poets, Sor Juana Inés …
Biography of Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet. In 1945, the Swedish Academy of Literature awarded the Nobel Prize to Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean teacher (literary pseudonym: Gabriela Mistral) who, in addition to exercising her pedagogical functions, wrote poems. The representative of the Academy …
Biography of Elizabeth Barrett, British poet
Click here if you want to see this biography in Spanish translation. Biography of Elizabeth Barrett, one of the most respected poetesses of the Victorian period. With her literary work she campaigned for the abolition of slavery. She significantly helped reform English legislation regarding child labor. Elizabeth Barret’s childhood and family Elizabeth Barrett was born …