Mariana Sansón Argüello

Mariana Sansón Argüello (born June 6, 1918 in León ; † May 6, 2002 ibid) was a Nicaraguan poet and painter.

Sansón lived in Rome for three years, where her first poems were written. The first poems were published in 1959 in her hometown in the Cuadernos Universitarios of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN). Her Zoo Fantástico , created in 1986/1987, was printed in 1994. She also wrote poetry and prose for publication in the La Prensa Literaria supplement . A large part of her lyric work appeared in 1996 in the volume Las horas y sus voces . Sansón was the first woman to be accepted into the Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua .

With Rosa Carlota Tünnermann , Sansón founded a painting school in León in the early 1970s, which was under the auspices of UNAN. At the suggestion of Ernesto Cardenal , she founded El Grupo Sutiaba de Pintores Primitivos in 1980 . The painter Olga Maradiaga emerged from this group under her leadership . After her death, the Asociación Nicaragüense de Escritoras founded the Concurso Nacional de Poesía Escrita por Mujeres “Mariana Sansón” in 2003 .

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SURNAME	Sansón Argüello, Mariana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nicaraguan poet and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leon (Nicaragua)
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 2002
Place of death	Leon (Nicaragua)