Mirta Aguirre Explained

Mirta Aguirre Carreras (18 October 1912 – 8 August 1980) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist. 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 'Romancero gitano', which Aguirre adapted to tell stories of revolutionary achievement.^[3]

Works

• Presencia interior [Interior Presence], 1938
• Influencia de la mujer en Iberoamerica [The Influence of Women In Latin America], 1948. Winner of the Iboamerican Floral Games.
• Juegos y otros poema, [Games and other poems], 1974
• "Juegos y otros Poemas," 1974
• "La Obra Narrativa de Cervantes," 1971, 1978
• Ayer de hoy [Yesterday of Today], 1980

External links

• Mirta Aguirre, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature
• Mirta Aguirre at cubaliteraria.cu

Notes and References

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