Claribel Alegría

Claribel Alegría was born in 1924 in Estelí, in Nicaragua, to a Nicaraguan physician father and a Salvadoran mother, and grew up in Santa Ana, in El Salvador, where her family had been obliged to settle. José Vasconcelos gave her the first name under which she wrote. A student in the United States, she was in Washington a disciple of Juan Ramón Jiménez. Married to the writer Darwin Flakoll, with whom she co-signed novels and testimonies, she lived in Mexico, in South America, in Paris and in Majorca, returned to Nicaragua after the revolution and died in Managua in 2018. The Neustadt Prize crowned her work in 2006.

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• PoetrySobrevivoClaribel Alegría · 1978not translated into EnglishLiterature