Dulce María Loynaz

Dulce María Loynaz de Alvarez de Cañas ( born December 10, 1903 in Havana, Cuba, † April 27, 1997 ibid ) was one of the most important Cuban poets and member of the Real Academia Española.

Life

Dulce María Loynaz was the daughter of Major-General of the Cuban War of Independence against the Spanish colonial power 1895-1898 Loynaz Enrique del Castillo. She had up to its entry into the University of Havana never attended school. In 1927, she earned a PhD at the Faculty of Law.

Her first poems were published in 1920 in the journal La Nación. In the same year, she visited the United States. She has toured on several North and South America and most of Europe and many countries in Asia.

In the 1950s she published weekly chronicles in the magazines El País and Excelsior. In addition, they also worked on magazines such as social, Grafos, Diario de la Marina, El Mundo, Revista Cubana, Revista Cubana Bimestre and Origen.

In 1959 she was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy and was its chairman for Cuba until her death. In 1992 she was awarded the Cervantes Prize, and awards for her journalistic work. It maintained contact with fellow poets such as Federico García Lorca and Nobel laureates Gabriela Mistral and Juan Ramón Jiménez.

She died in her house in the Vedado district in Havana at the age of 93 years.

Works

• Verso (1950 )
• Juegos de agua (1951 )
• Poemas sin nombre (1953 )
• Ultimos días de una casa (1958 )
• Poemas escogidos (1985 )
• Poemas Náufragos (1991 )
• Bestiary (1991 )
• Finas redes (1993 )
• La novia de Lázaro (1993 )
• Poesía completa (1993 )
• Melancolía de otoño (1997)
• La voz del silencio (2000)
• El áspero sendero (2001)

• Jardín
• Un Verano en Tenerife