Julia de Burgos

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Julia Constanze Burgos García , better known as Julia de Burgos (born February 17, 1914 in Carolina , Puerto Rico ; died July 6, 1953 in New York City ) was a Puerto Rican poet and poet .

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Julia de Burgos grew up in a barrio in Santa Cruz. As the oldest of thirteen children, she attended school and, after graduating from Escuela Superior, studied at the Universidad de Puerto Rico from 1931 to 1933 .

She then taught in Naranjito until she got married in 1934 . In the following years she worked for the Puerto Rico Economical Rehabilitation Agency . Between 1937 and 1939 she published three volumes of poetry, for which she received a prize from the Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña .

In 1940 she left Puerto Rico for New York, where she lived as a journalist. At the end of the year she went to Cuba and studied literature and philosophy at the University of Havana . In 1942 she returned to New York, where she found support with the Circle of Ibero-American Writers and Poets and was her second marriage to the musician Armando Marín . During the final years of the war, she lived with her husband in Washington and worked in the office of the Coordinator of Interamerican Affairs .

She was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver in 1946 and the last few years of her life were dominated by hospitalizations due to her alcohol consumption and liver problems. In 1952 her last volume of poetry was published.

In the 1960s, two editions of her poems appeared in Puerto Rico. In 1967 Ivette Jiménez Báez published the monograph Julia de Burgos: vida y poesía . The Universidad de Puerto Rico awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1987 in recognition of her contributions to the island's literary culture. In 1997 her complete works were published in English translation.

Works (selection)

  • Yo misma fui mi ruta , Ediciones Huracán, 1986; ISBN 0-940238-30-6
  • Amor y soledad Ediciones Torremozas, 1994; ISBN 84-7839-136-3
  • El mar y tú y otros poemas Ediciones Huracan, 1981; ISBN 0-940238-46-2
  • Cancion de la Verdad Sencilla (Vortice Ser) Ediciones Huracan, 1982; ISBN 0-940238-66-7
  • Poema en Veinte Surcos Ediciones Huracan, 1983; ISBN 0-940238-23-3
  • The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos, Obra Completa Poetica (translated by Jack Agueros), 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Burgos, Julia de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgos García, Julia Constanze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Puerto Rican poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Carolina , Puerto Rico
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1953
Place of death New York City , New York, United States