Biografía:
Havana, 1902 This writer got her degree in Civil Laws. She studied with private teachers, in her own house. She published her first poems in the La Nacion, in 1920, year when she also visited the United States. Ever since, she carried out several trips through North America and Europe. In 1927 in passed the tests to get her degree in Civil Laws, in the University of Havana. She travelled through Turkey, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Egypt, Mexico, South America and the Canary Islands, where she was given the freedom of the islands. She published weekly chronicles in El Pais and Excelsior. She also contributed in publications such as Social, Grafos, Diario de la Marina, El Mundo, Revista Cubana, Revista Bimestre Cubana, Origenes. She participated, invited by the University of Salamanca, to the celebration of the 5th centenary of the Catholic Kings birth. She was elected a member of the Nationa Academy of Arts and Letters, of the Cuban Academy of Language and the Royal Spanish Academy of Language. Her book Poemas sin nombre fue was translated to the Italian language (Milano, Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino). She left unpublished translations of Walt Whitman. She gave conferences and readings, in Cuba and Spain. She quit the laws in 1961. She died on April, 27th 1997.
