Lydia Cabrera

Lydia Cabrera was born in Havana on 20 May 1899, or 1900 according to Britannica, the youngest of the eight children of the writer and lawyer Raimundo Cabrera, a supporter of independence. Settled in Paris in 1927, she studied at the École du Louvre and painted with Alexandra Exter, then returned to Cuba in 1938. In 1954 El Monte, her major study of santería, appeared. She left the island in 1960 for Madrid, then Miami, where she died on 19 September 1991.

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• TaleAfro-Cuban TalesCuentos negros de CubaLydia Cabrera · 1936Literature