María Mercedes Carranza

María Mercedes Carranza (1945-2003) was a poet and journalist from Bogotá, Colombia, who spent most of her childhood in Spain. Her father was the poet Eduardo Carranza. She promoted the writing of José Asunción Silva.^[1] Her work was sometimes referred to as "feminist", as it ridiculed giving women secondary roles, but she rejected the feminist label as "imported" and not fitting her concern on class differences. She had political involvements, joining the 19th of April Movement when it became the M-19 Democratic Alliance. Juan Luis Panero was her second husband.^[2] Like Silva, whom she promoted, her death was a suicide.

References

1. Poetry International Rotterdam
2. Cynthia Tompkins; David William Foster (2001). Notable Twentieth-century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 71–76. ISBN 978-0-313-31112-3.