Amelia Denis de Icaza

Amelia Denis de Icaza was born on 28 November 1836 in Panama, then a province of New Granada, the daughter of Saturnino Denis, a journalist of French origin, and a Panamanian mother. She was the first woman of the isthmus to publish verse. With her second husband, José María Icaza, she lived in Guatemala, where she signed Elena in the press, then settled in 1894 in León, Nicaragua, where she knew Rubén Darío. Her poetry sings of the homeland, youth and melancholy. She died in Managua on 16 July 1911; her remains were brought back to Panama in 1936.

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• PoetryAl Cerro AncónAmelia Denis de Icaza · 1906not translated into EnglishLiterature