Adela Zamudio

Adela Zamudio ( born October 11, 1854 in Cochabamba, † June 2, 1928 ibid ) was a Bolivian teacher, writer, playwright, painter, their works under the pseudonym Soledad ( Solitude) published.

Adela Zamudio is considered one of the most important literary voices of their land over the centuries. Your birthday on November 11 is celebrated in Bolivia as Bolivian Women's Day today.

At the age of 15, she published her first poem Two roses and signed it with the pseudonym " Soledad ". However, it passed another twenty years until the publication of her first book of poetry Essayos poéticos, who was showered with praise by the critics. She put her state exam as a teacher in 1890 and was barely five years later, director of the " Liceo de senoritas ", which was later renamed the " Liceo Adela Zamudio ".

With a lot of verve, they fought well against the limitations in the academic training of Bolivian women, as for a separation of church and state, and for the introduction of civil divorce. So she was exposed her life to the attacks of conservative segments of the population and the Catholic Church, she was an atheist and anarchist.

In her later years, she was active with great financial success mean for charities and died at the age of 73 from bronchitis, she had a lack of money can not provide adequate care physician.

Works

• Essayos poéticos ( poetic texts) (1887 )
• Violeta o la princesa azul ( Violeta or Blue Princess ) ( 1890)
• El castillo negro ( The Black Castle ) ( 1906)
• Intimas ( Close Friends ) ( 1913)
• Ráfagas (wind gusts) (1914 )
• Peregrinando ( Move ) ( 1943)
• Cuentos breves (short novels ) ( 1943)