Juana Teresa Juega López (

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, 8 April 1885 – Melide, 3 December 1979) was a Spanish poet of Galicia who wrote in Galician and

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Biography

She was the daughter of the doctor, Ramón Juega Charlín. From the age of five to thirteen, she lived in

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, Uruguay, where her mother came from. Back in Galicia, the family settled in

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, where her father ran a spa. Starting in 1904, her verses, in Galician and Spanish, were published in ''Él Eco de Galicia'' and ''El Compostelano''. Juega López wrote a book of poetry, ''Alma que llora'', with a foreword by Leopoldo Pedreira Taibo and a dedication by José María Riguera Montero. This displeased her boyfriend, Lieutenant José Morales Vilar, so much so that in March 1908, he shot Juega López several times, seriously wounding her, and then committed suicide. The book was never published. Two years later, Juega López married Emilio Pereiro Quiroga, a lawyer from Melide, with whom she had four children. They resided successively in

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, Melide and

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. During the

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, Juega López was a member of

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and an activist who favored

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. She collaborated in demonstrations and acts in favor of

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. Her poem ,"A muerte", appears in the 1911 anthology, ''Uxío Carré Aldao''. Her great-nephew, José-María Monterroso Devesa, made a compilation of Juega López's work, more than seventy compositions, eight of them in Galician, and they were published in 2000 in the ''Boletín del Centro de Estudios Melidenses.'' They are also included in ''Museo de la Tierra de Melide'' n.º 13.

Recognition

* Writer, ''Gran Enciclopedia Galega Silverio Cañada'', since 2005. * Illustrious people, Museo de Melide.

References

Bibliography

* 1981, ''Historia da literatura galega contemporanea 1808-1936.'' Editorial Galaxia. . * 2005, ''Gran Enciclopedia Galega Silverio Cañada''. .

External links

* , Isabel (10/12/2017)
"Tragedia en la casa de baños"
''La Opinión A Coruña'' (in Spanish). * , Raquel (17/10/2017)
"Cinco tiros contra a escritora que ía publicar un libro de poemas"
(in Spanish). {{DEFAULTSORT:Juega Lopez, Juana Teresa 1885 births 1979 deaths Galician poets Spanish-language poets People from A Coruña 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish women writers