María Olimpia de Obaldía

María Olimpia Miranda de Obaldía was born on 9 September 1891 in Dolega, in the province of Chiriquí, the daughter of Manuel del Rosario Miranda and Felipa Rovira. She wrote verse from childhood, studied in David and then at the teacher training school for women in the capital, where she graduated in 1913, and taught in her region until her marriage, in 1918, to José de Obaldía Jované, with whom she had seven children. She was nicknamed the lark of Chiriquí. The first woman admitted to the Panamanian Academy of the Language, in 1951, she died in Panama on 14 August 1985.

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• PoetryOrquídeasMaría Olimpia de Obaldía · 1926not translated into EnglishLiterature