Mirta Aguirre
Mirta Aguirre Carreras (18 October 1912 – 8 August 1980) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and political activist. She has been called "the most important female academic and woman of letters in post-revolutionary Cuba".[1]
Life
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 'Romancerero gitano', which Aguirre adapted to tell stories of revolutionary achievement.[3]
Works
- 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
- Ayer de hoy [Yesterday of Today], 1980
References
External links
- Mirta Aguirre, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature
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- Mirta Aguirre at cubaliteraria.cu
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