Luisa Pérez de Zambrana

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Pérez, the second or maternal family name is Montes de Oca , and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Zambrana.

Luisa Pérez de Zambrana

Luisa Pérez de Zambrana (25 August 1837, El Cobre – 25 March 1922, Havana) was a Cuban writer and translator. She was one of Cuba's greatest poets.

Life

Luisa Pérez y Montes de Oca, was born near El Cobre, Cuba, in 1837. Her sister was the poet, Julia Pérez Montes de Oca. In 1858, Luisa married Dr. Ramon Zambrana, an eminent man of letters of Havana. She wrote a lot when young, and published a volume of poems in 1856. In addition to her poems she wrote Angelica and Estrella and other novels, and she also translated works from French and Italian.

See also

• List of people on the postage stamps of Cuba

References

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Johnson, Willis Fletcher (1920). The History of Cuba (Public domain ed.). Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4655-1428-8.