Zenobia Camprubí
| Zenobia Camprubí | |
|---|---|
|
Zenobia Camprubí with her husband Juan Ramón Jiménez | |
| Born |
31 August 1887 Malgrat de Mar, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Died |
28 October 1956 (aged 69) San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Occupation | Writer, poet, translator |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Spouse | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| Relatives | Raimundo Camprubí Escudero and Isabel Aymar Lucca (parents) |
Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.
She was born in Malgrat de Mar (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a Puerto Rican mother and a Catalan father.
She later lived in the United States, studied in Columbia University, and spent the duration of the Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936 – 1 April 1939) writing her Diario ("Diary") in Cuba. Her brother, José Camprubí, was owner and publisher of La Prensa, New York's most important Spanish-language daily newspaper, from 1918 to 1942.[1]
She eventually became a professor at the University of Maryland before her death from ovarian cancer, aged 69, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, two days after her husband Juan Ramón Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
See also
- List of Latin American writers
- List of Puerto Rican writers
- List of famous Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Rican literature
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
References
- ↑ Fernández, J.D. (2010). "The Discovery of Spain in New York, circa 1930". In Sullivan, Edward J. Nueva York: 1613 – 1945. Scala, New York Historical Society.
- (Spanish) Zenobia Camprubí profile
- (Spanish) Biografía de Zenobia Camprubí
- (Spanish) Zenobia Camprubí
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zenobia Camprubí. |
|