Isabel de los Ángeles Ruano (born June 3, 1945, in Chiquimula) is a Guatemalan writer, poet, journalist and teacher. In 1954, she moved with her parents to Mexico; they returned to Guatemala three years later, living in various locations within

Jutiapa Department Jutiapa Department is a department of Guatemala that borders along El Salvador and the Pacific Ocean. The capital is the city of Jutiapa. As of 2018, it has a population of 488,395. The department is divided into seventeen municipalities. Jut ...

and Chiquimula Department. In Chiquimula, she entered the Instituto Normal de Señoritas de Oriente. She graduated from Educación Primaria Urbana with a teacher's diploma in 1964 at the age 18. In 1966, she traveled on her own to Mexico, where she published her first book, entitled ''Cariátides'', the foreword of the book having been written by the Spanish poet

León Felipe León Felipe Camino Galicia (11 April 1884 – 17 September 1968) was an anti-fascist Spanish poet. Biography Felipe was born in Tábara, Zamora, Spain, while his parents were travelling. His father was a public notary and comfortably off. ...

. Returning to Guatemala in 1967, she began working in journalism. In 1978, she completed her university studies in Spanish and Latin American Language and Literature at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. In the late 1980s, she began to suffer from mental disorders. She was awarded the

Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature The Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature (officially in Spanish language: ''Premio Nacional de Literatura "Miguel Ángel Asturias"'') is the most important literary award in Guatemala. Sometimes referred to as the "National Literary ...

by the Ministry of Culture in 2001. Dressing as a man, she has lived for several years in Guatemala City's colonia Justo Rufino Barrios, zona 21.

Selected works

Books

* 1967: ''Cariátides'' * 1988: ''Canto de amor a la ciudad de Guatemala'' * 1988: ''Torres y tatuajes'' * 1999: ''Los del viento'' * 2002: ''Café express'' * 2006: ''Versos dorados''

Best-known poems

References

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