Mirta Aguirre

Mirta Aguirre or Mirta Aguirre Carreras (1912-1980) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist and political activist. 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 'Romancerero 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
• Ayer de hoy [Yesterday and Today], 1980

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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

External links

• Mirta Aguirre, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature
• Works by or about Mirta Aguirre in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Mirta Aguirre at cubaliteraria.cu

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Name	Aguirre, Mirta
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Date of birth	1912
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Date of death	1980
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