Julia de Burgos

Julia de Burgos was born on 17 February 1914 in Carolina, the eldest of thirteen children. A schoolteacher in Naranjito, she joined the Nationalist Party and became secretary general of its women's branch, the Daughters of Freedom. Leaving in 1940 for New York and then for Cuba, where she studied at the University of Havana, she returned to New York and was cultural editor there of the newspaper Pueblos Hispanos. She died in New York on 6 July 1953 and was buried in Carolina.

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• PoetryRío Grande de LoízaJulia de Burgos · 1938Literature