Delmira Agustini

Delmira Agustini was born on 24 October 1886 in Montevideo, into a well-off family; her parents taught her at home, where she learned French, painting and the piano. As a teenager, she wrote a column under the pseudonym Joujou in the magazine La Alborada and published her first poems. In August 1913, she married Enrique Job Reyes, a cattle auctioneer; a few weeks later, she returned to her parents' house and asked for a divorce, granted in June 1914, while continuing to see him. On 6 July 1914, in Montevideo, he shot her dead, then turned the weapon on himself.

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• PoetryLos cálices vacíosDelmira Agustini · 1913Literature