Juana de Ibarbourou

Juana Fernández Morales was born on 8 March 1892 at Melo, to a father of Galician origin and a mother from an old local family. In 1913 she married Captain Lucas Ibarbourou, whose name she took, and settled in Montevideo in 1918. On 10 August 1929, at the Legislative Palace, a tribute proclaimed her “Juana de América”. A member of the National Academy of Letters in 1947, she received in 1959 the first National Grand Prize for Literature and was nominated for the Nobel in 1959, 1960 and 1963. Her memoirs and a biography report her husband's violence. She died in Montevideo in July 1979.

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• NarrativeEl cántaro frescoJuana de Ibarbourou · 1920not translated into EnglishLiterature