Carilda Oliver Labra, poet, painter. (born in Matanzas) ** Carilda Oliver Labra, poetisa, pintora.
Known as one of the most influential Cuban poets, her work has focused on love, the role of women in society, and herself.
Carilda Oliver Labra was born July 6, 1922 in Matanzas, Cuba. She graduated with a civil law degree from the University of Havana and practiced law for several years, later teaching Fine Arts as well.
Her first collection in 1943, Lyric Prelude (Prelude Lyric) established her as a major poetic voice. In 1950 won the coveted National Award for Poetry for her popular and famous book, in the south of my throat (South of my throat). Other works include the Flag Song (Song to the flag) 1950; Marti Canto (Canto Marti) 1953, and Song of Matanzas (Matanzas Canto a) 1957. Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral, said her poetry was “deep as the metal material such as the Highlands.”
Throughout her life, Carilda Oliver Labra was a brave pioneer of women’s independence and the plight of the Cuban people under colonialism. Her work has shown compassion for the unfortunate, the sick and poor. Although she spent most of her life in solitude, her books are not available to the public today, reaching 90, which is revered as one of the poets of Cuba, the best in life.
In one of her last interviews the poet confessed she has “had a hard life.” To me no one has taught me to live, many people has taught me to die, but they haven’t achieved it ”
The poet transgressed the moral Catholic republican Cuba after 1959 and also adapted his poetry to “socialist realism”.
For more scandal, her husband is 50 years her junior, was married four times, had many lovers and she has revealed in her verse.
Her work was highly praised by Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet and first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945.
For many years the poetry of Oliver Carilda beat any monkish bigotry or narrow ideological and 90 years is “scrambling” to her countrymen, because the Cubans and Cuban women particularly recognized in her verses.
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Arnoldo Varona, Editor.