Mirta Aguirre

Mirta Aguirre Carreras (18 October 1912 - 8 August 1980) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and political activist. She has been called "the most important female academic and woman of letters in post-revolutionary Cuba".[1]

Life

Aguirre joined the Cuban Communist Party in 1932. She was a contributor to Juan Ramón Jiménez's 1936 anthology of Cuban poetry.[1] In the early 1950s she was a regular contributor to the bi-monthly Mujeres cubana [Cuban Women].[2] Her poetry was influenced by the criollismo of Nicolás Guillen and García Lorca's idea of the 'Romancerero gitano', which Aguirre adapted to tell stories of revolutionary achievement.[3]

Works

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Catherine Davies, A place in the sun?: women writers in twentieth-century Cuba, Zed Books, 1997, p. 22
  2. ↑ Davies, p.26
  3. ↑ 'Aguirre, Mirta (born 1912)', in Claire Buck, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, pp. 258-9

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