The Nicaraguan poet Claribel Alegría dies at 93 years of age

The Nicaraguan poet Claribel Alegría, who received the Queen Sofia Award for Ibero-American Poetry 2017, has died on Thursday morning at 93 years of age, as confirmed by her relatives. Alegría, who last November presented in Madrid "Although it lasts a moment", an anthology that collects his poetic work from 1948 to the present, will be buried .......

next Saturday the 27th, in the cemetery of Santo Domingo de Managua, according to the Nicaraguan press reports.

Born in Nicaragua in 1924, the reader can feel, in her verses, the influence of Juan Ramón Jiménez's poetry, who was a sort of mentor for her. We can also read in her work part of Benedetti's commitment, with whom she became friends. Robert Graves, who also marked her work, met her, together with Cortázar, in Deyá, a small town in Mallorca. During her life she traveled frequently and had her home in Mexico, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Paris and Palma de Mallorca. In 1979 she returned to Nicaragua, where she would remain the rest of her days.

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