Carilda Oliver Labra
Cuban poet (1922-2018)
Carilda Oliver Labra (6 July 1922 – 29 August 2018) was a Cuban poet. She was born in Matanzas.[1][2]
Oliver Labra studied law at the University of Havana.[1] She was known as one of the most influential Cuban poets.[3]
Oliver Labra won many national and international prizes including the National Poetry Prize (1950), National Literature Award (1997) and the José de Vasconcelos International Prize (2002).[1] Me desordeno, amor, me desordeno might be her most famous poem.
Oliver Labra died of pneumonia in Matanzas on 29 August 2018, aged 96.[4]
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change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Luis Sexto. "Carlida Oliver Labra: Poetry and Total Love". CubaNow. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
- ↑ Urbano Martínez Carmenate (2004). Carilda Oliver Labra: La Poesía Como Destino. Cuba: Editorial Letras Cubanas. p. 485.
- ↑ Gioseffi, Daniela. "Carilda Oliver Labra". The Drunken Boat. Retrieved 2006-12-13.
- ↑ "Fallece la poetisa cubana Carilda Oliver Labra a los 96 años". elnuevoherald.
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