Mirta Aguirre
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Mirta Aguirre Carreras (18 October 1912 – 8 August 1980) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist. She has been called "the most important female academic and woman of letters in post-revolutionary Cuba".[1]
Life
[edit]Aguirre joined the Cuban Communist Party in 1932. She was a contributor to Juan Ramón Jiménez's 1936 anthology of Cuban poetry.[1] In the early 1950s she was a regular contributor to the bi-monthly Mujeres cubana [Cuban Women].[2] Her poetry was influenced by the criollismo of Nicolás Guillen and García Lorca's idea of the 'Romancero gitano', which Aguirre adapted to tell stories of revolutionary achievement.[3]
Works
[edit]- Presencia interior [Interior Presence], 1938
- Influencia de la mujer en Iberoamerica [The Influence of Women In Latin America], 1948. Winner of the Iboamerican Floral Games.
- Juegos y otros poema, [Games and other poems], 1974
- "Juegos y otros Poemas," 1974
- "La Obra Narrativa de Cervantes," 1971, 1978
- Ayer de hoy [Yesterday of Today], 1980
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Mirta Aguirre, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature
- Mirta Aguirre at cubaliteraria.cu
Categories:
- Cuban essayists
- Cuban journalists
- Cuban academics
- 1912 births
- 1980 deaths
- Cuban women essayists
- Cuban women novelists
- Cuban women poets
- Cuban women journalists
- 20th-century Cuban women writers
- 20th-century Cuban novelists
- 20th-century Cuban poets
- 20th-century essayists
- 20th-century journalists
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