Clementina Suárez

Clementina Suárez was born on 12 May 1902 in Juticalpa, in Olancho. Her father died when she was twenty-one; she left her province, then lived in Mexico, in Cuba and for a long time in El Salvador, where she was cultural attaché at the Honduran embassy. She founded the magazine Mujer, opened art galleries, married the poet Guillermo Bustillo Reina and then the painter José Mejía Vides, and posed for many painters. Winner of the Ramón Rosa National Prize in 1970, she was murdered at home, in Tegucigalpa, in December 1991, and her attacker has never been identified.

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• PoetryCreciendo con la hierbaClementina Suárez · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature