Dulce María Loynaz

Dulce María Loynaz was born in Havana on 10 December 1902, the daughter of General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, a hero of the liberation army and the author of the words of a march. Educated at home, she took a doctorate in civil law in 1927 and associated with Gabriela Mistral and Juan Ramón Jiménez. A poet, she joined the Cuban Academy of the Language in 1959 and the Royal Spanish Academy in 1968, received the Cervantes Prize in 1992 and died on 27 April 1997.

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• NovelJardínDulce María Loynaz · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature