Zenobia Camprubí | |
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Born | 31 August 1887 Malgrat de Mar, Spain |
Died | 25 October 1956 (aged 69) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Occupation | writer, poet, translator |
Nationality | Spanish |
Spouse(s) | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
Relative(s) | Raimundo Camprubí and Isabel Aymar Lucca (parents) |
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore. She was born in Malgrat de Mar (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a Puerto Rican mother and a Catalan father.
She later lived in the United States, studied in Columbia University, and spent the duration of the Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936 – 1 April 1939) writing her Diario ("Diary") in Cuba. She eventually became a professor at the University of Maryland before her death from ovarian cancer at the age of 69 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, two days after her husband Juan Ramón Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature.