Mirta Aguirre
Encyclopedia
Mirta Aguirre or Mirta Aguirre Carreras (1912-1980) 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
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's 1936 anthology of Cuban poetry. In the early 1950s she was a regular contributor to the bi-monthly Mujeres cubana [Cuban Women]. 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.
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
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Life
Aguirre joined the Cuban Communist Party in 1932. She was a contributor to Juan Ramón JiménezJuan Ramón Jiménez
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of "pure poetry."-Biography:Jiménez was born in Moguer, near Huelva, in...
's 1936 anthology of Cuban poetry. In the early 1950s she was a regular contributor to the bi-monthly Mujeres cubana [Cuban Women]. Her poetry was influenced by the criollismo
Criollismo
Criollismo is a literary movement, also called costumbrismo, that took place between the end of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century in Latin America, and is considered equivalent to regionalism in the USA literature. It is based on realism to describe the scenes, customs and...
of Nicolás Guillen
Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba...
and García Lorca's idea of the 'Romancerero gitano', which Aguirre adapted to tell stories of revolutionary achievement.
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 and Today], 1980
External links
- Mirta Aguirre, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature
- Mirta Aguirre at cubaliteraria.cu