Juana de Ibarbourou
Juana de Ibarbourou (born March 8, 1895 in Melo , Cerro Largo Department , † July 15, 1979 in Montevideo ), whose real name was Juanita Fernández Morales , is a poet from Uruguay . She was one of the most famous poets in Latin America. Her first love and nature poetry was already very successful. Since 1930 the verses became more melancholy and were more committed to surrealist trains of thought and images. De Ibarboubou, also known as Juana de América, was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times.
Life
Juana de Ibarbourou was born Juana Fernández Morales on March 8, 1892. In 1909, at the age of 17, she published her first prose piece "Derechos femeninos" (in German: "The rights of women"), which suddenly made her famous as a feminist.
On June 28, 1913, she married Lucas Ibarbourou, seven years later, on June 28, 1921, she ecclesiastically married him in the Church of La iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro . In 1917 Juana gave birth to their only child, Julio César Ibarbourou. In 1918 Juana moved to Montevideo with her family. Lucas Ibarbourou died on January 13, 1942.
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Poetry and Philosophy
Her first two poetry collections were "Las lenguas de diamante" (1919) and "El cántaro fresco" (1920). They received international attention and have been translated into several languages. She published 30 other books, apart from her childhood memories Chico Carlo (1944) and a children's book, mostly poetry collections.
Juana de Ibarbourou was a feminist , naturalist , and pantheist .
feminism
Juana de Ibarbourou was one of the first Latin American feminists. Ibarbourous feminism is evident in poems like La Higuera and Como La Primavera .
Works
- Las lenguas de diamante (1918/1919)
- Raza salvaje (1920)
- Cántaro fresco (1920)
- Raíz salvaje (1922)
- Ejemplario (1927, libro de lectura para niños)
- La rosa de los vientos (1930)
- Loores de Nuestra Señora (1934/1935)
- Chico Carlo (1944) contains her memoir.
- Los sueños de Natacha (1945, teatro infantil sobre temas clásicos)
- Perdida (1950)
- Azor (1953)
- Mensaje del escriba (1953)
- Romances del destino (1955)
- Oro y tormenta (1956)
- Canto rodado (1958)
- Obras completas (1968).
- Juan Soldado (1971, colección de dieciocho relatos)
Others
A portrait of Juana de Ibarbourou graces the front of the one thousand peso note of the Uruguayan peso.
Web links
- Biography (in Spanish)
- Short biography in: "Hispanic feminist poems from the Middle Ages to the present: a bilingual anthology", p.139 by Ángel Flores, Kate Flores (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Merriam-Webster's encyclopedia of literature," p.575 by Merriam-Webster, Inc
- ↑ Páginas - Banknotes & Monedas. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibarbourou, Juana de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juana de America |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melo , Cerro Largo Department |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1979 |
| Place of death | Montevideo |