Mirta Aguirre Carreras (18 October 1912 – 8 August 1980) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and political activist from the LGBTQI movement. She has been called "the most important female academic and woman of letters in post-revolutionary

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".Catherine Davies, ''A place in the sun?: women writers in twentieth-century Cuba'', Zed Books, 1997, p. 22

Life

Aguirre joined the

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in 1932. She was a contributor to

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's 1936 anthology of Cuban poetry. In the early 1950s she was a regular contributor to the bi-monthly ''Mujeres cubana'' uban Women Her poetry was influenced by the ''

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'' of Nicolás Guillen and

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's idea of the 'Romancerero gitano', which Aguirre adapted to tell stories of revolutionary achievement.'Aguirre, Mirta (born 1912)', in Claire Buck, ed., ''Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature'', pp. 258-9

Works

*''Presencia interior'' nterior Presence 1938 *''Influencia de la mujer en Iberoamerica'' he Influence of Women In Latin America 1948. Winner of the Iboamerican Floral Games. * ''Juegos y otros poema'', ames and other poems 1974 * "Juegos y otros Poemas," 1974 * "La Obra Narrativa de Cervantes," 1971, 1978 * ''Ayer de hoy'' esterday of Today 1980

References

External links

Mirta Aguirre
''Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature'' *

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