Julia Esquivel
Julia Esquivel Velásquez (born May 3, 1930 in San Marcos , Guatemala ; † July 19, 2019 ) was a Guatemalan poet and human rights activist .
Life
Esquivel studied at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala , the Seminario Biblico Latinoamericano in Costa Rica and the Ecumenical Institute Bossey in Switzerland . She was now active as a teacher and pastoral social worker. Furthermore, she worked as a poet and human rights activist for the indigenous population. As a result, she was subjected to repression and had to go into exile in 1980. Esquivel now lived in Mexico and Nicaragua , and for a total of eight years in Switzerland among the sisters of the Grandchamp community .
In 1994 she received from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bern , the honorary doctorate awarded.
Web links
- Literature by and about Julia Esquivel in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Julia Esquivel (page of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales , Spanish, accessed January 17, 2011)
- Julia Esquivel on the Veterans of Hope Project website
Individual evidence
- ↑ ESM mourns Julia Esquivel
- ^ Jorge Ovalle: Fallce la reconocida poetisa guatemalteca Julia Esquivel. In: Prensa Libre. July 19, 2019, accessed January 15, 2020 (Spanish).
- ↑ University of Bern ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Esquivel, Julia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Esquivel Velásquez, Julia (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Guatemalan poet and human rights activist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1930 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | San Marcos , Guatemala |
DATE OF DEATH | 19th July 2019 |