María Dolores Pérez Enciso (1908 in

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– 1949 in

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) was a writer and journalist. She began her studies of education in Almería and then in

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. After a brief marriage to Francisco del Olmo, she joined the

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and during the

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she acted as Delegate of the Republic. After the end of the civil war, she relocated with her daughter to Colombia because of

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, then in Cuba and finally in Mexico where she joined the thousands of scientists, artists and intellectuals that arrived the previous years. In Mexico she wrote for the magazine ''Paquita del Jueves'' and for the newspaper ''El Nacional''. She reunited with another Andalusian writer, Mercedes Rull, who she had met in Cuba.

Publications

* ''Treinta estampas de la guerra'' (1941) * ''Un recuerdo del horror con unas palabras'' (1942) * ''IsabelleBlume'' (1942) * ''Cristal de las horas'' (1942) * ''Raíz al viento'' (1947)

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Biography
1908 births 1949 deaths People from Almería Spanish emigrants to Mexico Spanish women writers Mexican women journalists Spanish women journalists 20th-century Mexican women writers 20th-century Mexican writers {{Mexico-writer-stub