Esther de Cáceres

Esther de Cáceres was born on 4 September 1903 in Montevideo; raised at her grandfather's house, encouraged by an uncle who was a doctor, she studied at the Women's University. On 27 November 1929, she obtained her medical degree, the only woman in her year, and practised notably at the Maciel hospital while teaching at the secondary school, the Instituto Normal and the faculty of humanities. A socialist in her youth, she turned towards a Christian humanism. Three times winner of the national prize for literature, a member of the National Academy of Letters, she died on 3 February 1971 in Rianjo, in Galicia.

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• PoetryConcierto de amor y otros poemasEsther de Cáceres · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature