Nivaria Tejera
Nivaria Tejera (30 September 1929 – 6 January 2016[1]) was a Cuban poet and novelist. She was awarded the Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1971 for her novel Sonámbulo del sol.
Life
Nivaria Tejera, the daughter of a Cuban mother and a Spanish father from the Canary Islands,[2] was born in Cuba in 1929. Before she was two, she moved with her parents to Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, where her father was taken prisoner at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was not freed until 1944. After his release, the family returned to Cuba, where Tejera soon began to write and publish poetry.
In 1954 she went to Paris and has continued to live in that city, except for brief periods— first in 1959, when she returned to Cuba to work for the Republic, and several years later, when she served for the Cuban government as a cultural attaché in Rome. In 1965, she broke her political ties to Cuba and returned to Paris,[3] where she died in 2016 from pancreatic cancer, aged 86.[4]
Works
- Luz de lágrimas (poems)
- La gruta (poems)
- El barranco
- Fuir la spirale
- Sonámublo del sol
- Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución / J’attends la nuit pour te rêver, Révolution
- The Ravine
Awards
Tejera was awarded the Seix Barral Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1971 for her novel Sonámbulo del sol.
References
- ↑ "Muere en París la escritora Nivaria Tejera". Diario de Cuba.
- ↑ LITERATURA ATLÁNTICA: CANARIAS Y AMÉRICA (ATLANTIC LITERATURE: CANARY AND AMERICA; accessed 8 October 2010.(Spanish)
- ↑ Tejera, Nivaria. (2007). The Ravine, Albany, NY: SUNY Press; ISBN 978-0-7914-7292-7
- ↑ Notice of death of Nivaria Tejera, diariodecuba.com; accessed 8 January 2016.(Spanish)