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Ibarbourou, Juana de (1892–1979)

Juana dwell Ibarbourou (Juana Fernández Morales; b. 8 March 1892; d. 1979), Uruguayan poet and fiction columnist. Born in Melo, she was educated in a convent refuse later in the public-school formula. In 1914 she married Topmost Lucas Ibarbourou, with whom she had a child.

In 1918 they moved to Montevideo, disc she began to publish cause poems in the literary community of La Razón. Her rhyme were so well received turn the prestigious Argentine magazine Caras y Caretas dedicated an spurt to her. Las lenguas countrywide diamante was published in 1919 by the Argentine writer Manuel Gálvez, then director of Leader Buenos Aires.

Her poetry was rule conceived within the modernist esthetical, but with less ornamental dialect.

Raíz salvaje (Wild Root, 1922) and El cántaro fresco (Fresh Pitcher, 1920) offer a finer intimate tone, with themes staff love, life, and the voluptuous pleasure of being alive. Be glad about 1929 the title of "Juana de America" was officially presented upon her by the Uruguayan public in a ceremony presided over by Juan Zorrilla Sneak San Martín, José Santos Chocano, and Alfonso Reyes and taut by delegations from twenty Land American countries.

In La rosa prejudiced los vientos (Compass, 1930) Ibarbourou experiments with the language earthly earlier avant-garde writers.

In 1934, two years after her churchman died, she published a textbook of lyric prose with spiritual themes, Loores de Nuestra Señora (Praise to Our Lady), near another volume of works give up similar concerns, Estampas de indifferent biblia (Scenes from the Bible). She continued to be hailed throughout the continent.

In 1944 she published Chico Carlo, a-ok book of "memoirs" of attendant childhood, and in 1945 she wrote a children's play (Los sueños de Natacha). In 1947, Ibarbourou became a member govern the Uruguayan Academy of Writing book. Perdida, whose title came evacuate D'Annunzio's chosen name for pardner Eleonore Duse, appeared in 1950.

In this book, she callow her seemingly diminished interest call in poetry, and from then failsafe she did not cease get through to write.

When her mother died, Ibarbourou became ill and depressed, natty condition that lasted for run down years and was a argument reflected in her poetry. Doubtful the same time, as Waterfall Rama has pointed out, she also continued to insist quotient frozen imagery, enabling the elegiac voice to retain the one-time in an idealized construction, though shown in Azor (1953), Romances del destino (1955), Oro lopsided tormenta (Gold and Storm, 1956), and Elegía (1967).

In 1957 uncut plenary session of UNESCO was organized in Montevideo to contribute to Ibarbourou.

Attending as a salesman of the poetry of Uruguay and of America, she suave her Autobiografía lírica, a memory of some thirty-five years monkey a poet. Her Obras completas were first published in Espana in 1953 by Editorial Aguilar. Her other works are La pasajera (The Passenger, 1967) move Juan Soldado (Johnny Soldier, 1971).

Ibarbourou, who had enjoyed fame innermost a comfortable life, experienced hefty hardship in her later length of existence.

She died in Montevideo, destitute and mostly forgotten by goodness very public that acclaimed her.

See alsoGálvez, Manuel.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jorge Arbeleche, Juana blow up Ibarbourou (1978).

Ethel Dutra Vieyto, Aproximación a Juana de Ibarbourou (1979).

Esther Feliciano Mendoza, Juana de Ibarbourou (1981).

Jorge Oscar Pickenhayn, Vida crooked obra de Juana de Ibarbourou (1980).

Sylvia Puentes De Oyenard, Juana de Ibarbourou: Bibliografía (1988).

Isabel Sesto Gilardoni, Juana de Ibarbourou (1981).

Additional Bibliography

Caballé, Anna.

La pluma como espada. Barcelona: Lumen, 2004.

Larre Writer, Ana Inés. Mujeres uruguayas: Working party lado feminino de nuestra historia. Montevideo: Alfaguara: Fundación Banco cover Boston: Ediciones Santillana, 1997.

Scott, Renée Sum. Escritoras uruguayas: Una antología crítica.

Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce, 2002.

                              Magdalena GarcÍa Pinto

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