María Mercedes Carranza

María Mercedes Carranza was born in Bogotá in 1945, daughter of the poet Eduardo Carranza, and spent her childhood in Spain, where her father was cultural attaché. She studied philosophy and letters, at twenty edited the literary page of a daily in the capital, then the cultural sections of several magazines. In 1986 she founded the Silva Poetry House and directed it for seventeen years. Elected in 1991 to the Constituent Assembly, she defended culture there. Her brother Ramiro was kidnapped by the guerrillas; after months of waiting, she took her own life in July 2003.

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• PoetryVainas y otros poemasMaría Mercedes Carranza · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature