Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (22 March 1886 – 10 December 1962) was a

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n poet. She is considered to be one of the founders of the women's poetry movement in Venezuela and one of the country's principal avant-garde poets.Jorge Romero Leon, 'Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta', in Daniel Balderston & Mike Gonzalez, ''Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003'', p. 40

Biography

Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva was born in Barinitas,

into a wealthy family. She was a sister of the poet Alfredo Arvelo Larriva. Self-taught, she lived most of her life in Barinitas, working as a teacher and nurse on her family's estate. She was a member of the Viernes Group of poets. In 1958 she was awarded the Municipal Poetry Prize for her ''Mandato del canto'' (1957). Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva died on 10 December 1962 in Caracas, aged 76.https://www.barinas.net.ve/arte-cultura/barinitas-cuna-poetas-enriqueta-arvelo-larriva-su-voz-aislada

Works

*''Voz aislada'' (Isolated Voice), 1930 *''El cristal nervioso'' (The Narrow Mirror), 1931 *''Poemas de una pena'' (Poems of Shame) 1942 *''El canto del recuento'' (Counting Song) 1949 *''Mandato del canto; poemas, 1944-1946'' (Mandate to Sing), Caracas, 1957 *''Poemas perseverantes'' (Persistent Poems), 1963

References

1886 births 1962 deaths Venezuelan women poets 20th-century Venezuelan poets 20th-century Venezuelan women writers {{Venezuela-poet-stub