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María Olimpia de Obaldía (9 September 1891 – 14 August 1985), was a
Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
nian poet.


Biography

The daughter of Manuel del Rosario Miranda and Felipa Rovira, she was born in
Dolega, Chiriquí Dolega is a corregimiento in Dolega District, Chiriquí Province, Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part o ...
. She studied at the Escuela Normal de Institutoras in
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, qualified in 1913, and worked as a primary school teacher in her native town until her marriage to Don José de Obaldía in 1918. She published her first book, Orquídeas, in 1926. In 1930, she was granted the title Maria Olimpia de Panama by the Instituto Nacional de Panamá. In 1951, she became the first female member of the Academia Panameña de la Lengua. In 1976, she was made a Commander of the Panamanian ''
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'' and in 1983 was decorated with the '' Orden de Belisario Porras''. The same year, she received the papal award ''Augusta Cruz Insigne
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'' from
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. Her writings generally deal with subjects such as maternity and love of family. Her most famous poe
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expresses the suffering of women of the Ngöbe Buglé people (an indigenous Panamanian Indian group).


Poetry

* ''Orquídeas'' Panamá, Imprenta Nacional, 1926 * ''Breviario Lírico'', Panamá, Imprenta Nacional, 1930 * ''Parnaso Infantil'', Panamá, Ediciones del Departamento de Cultura, 1948 * ''Visiones eternas'', Panamá, 1961 * ''Obra Poética Completa'', Club Kiwanis de Panamá with the collaboration of Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1976


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Brief biography (in Spanish)
1891 births 1985 deaths People from Dolega District Panamanian poets Panamanian women writers 20th-century poets Panamanian women poets 20th-century women writers 20th-century Panamanian women writers 20th-century Panamanian writers {{Panama-bio-stub