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Puerto Rico (United States)

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Rosario Ferré

Died in 2016

Rosario Ferré was born on 28 September 1938 in Ponce, the daughter of Luis A. Ferré, an engineer who became governor of Puerto Rico. A graduate of Manhattanville College, she took a master's degree at the University of Puerto Rico and a doctorate at the University of Maryland. In 1972 she founded with her cousin Olga Nolla an avant-garde literary review, then wrote novels, essays, poems and children's books. Her novel The House on the Lagoon was a finalist for the National Book Award. She died in San Juan on 18 February 2016.

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