Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva
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Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (22 March 1886 – 10 December 1962)[1][2] was a Venezuelan poet. She is considered to be one of the founders of the women's poetry movement in Venezuela[3] and one of the country's principal avant-garde poets.[4]
Biography
Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva was born in Barinitas, Venezuela into a wealthy family. She was a sister of the poet Alfredo Arvelo Larriva. Self-taught, she lived most of her life in Barinitas, working as a teacher and nurse on her family's estate.[5]
She was a member of the Viernes Group of poets.[6] In 1958 she was awarded the Municipal Poetry Prize for her Mandato del canto (1957).[4]
Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva died on 10 December 1962 in Caracas, aged 76.[7]
Works
- Voz aislada (Isolated Voice), 1930[5]
- El cristal nervioso (The Narrow Mirror), 1931[5]
- Poemas de una pena (Poems of Shame) 1942
- El canto del recuento (Counting Song) 1949
- Mandato del canto; poemas, 1944-1946 (Mandate to Sing), Caracas, 1957[5]
- Poemas perseverantes (Persistent Poems), 1963
References
- ^ "Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta". 12 October 2009.
- ^ "Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva".
- ^ Roland Greene; Stephen Cushman; Clare Cavanagh; Jahan Ramazani; Paul F. Rouzer; Harris Feinsod; David Marno; Alexandra Slessarev (2012). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press. p. 1504. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
- ^ a b Jorge Romero Leon, 'Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta', in Daniel Balderston & Mike Gonzalez, Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003, p. 40
- ^ a b c d Cecilia Vicuña; Ernesto Livon-Grosman (2009). The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-19-512454-5.
- ^ 'Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta (1886-1963)', in Claire Buck, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, p. 295
- ^ Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva su voz aisladabarinas.net.ve Archived 24 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
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