Dora Castellanos

Dora Echeverría de Castellanos was born in Bogotá in 1924 and wrote verse from childhood. Entering the Comptroller General's Office very young as a secretary, she was later private secretary to thirteen ministers of the economy, head of public relations at a telephone company, then cultural attaché and chargé d'affaires of her country in Caracas for thirteen years. Admitted in 1978 to the Colombian Academy of the Language, the first woman to join it, she became a full member in 1991. She published some thirty books and left as many unpublished, and died in Bogotá in June 2023, aged ninety-eight.

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• PoetryClamorDora Castellanos · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature