Madrid Spain.- The Cuban poet and essayist Fina García Marruz passed away this Monday afternoon in Havana, at the age of 99.
Confirming the news Houses of the Americas He referred to García Marruz as “one of the most extraordinary poetic voices in Latin American literature.”
The @CasAmericas mourns the loss of Fina García Marruz, one of the most extraordinary poetic voices in Latin American literature. A member of the Orígenes group, she was also a lucid essayist to whom we dedicated our Author Week in 2014. pic.twitter.com/BtDfStiKxe
— House of the Americas (@CasAmericas) June 28, 2022
The also researcher and literary critic was born in the Cuban capital in 1923.
Along with her husband, the poet Cintio Vitier, she was part of the Grupo Orígenes and the magazine of the same name founded by José Lezama Lima and José Rodríguez Feo in 1944, which became the most important literary publication of the time.
His extensive poetic work includes the lost looks (1951), Visitations (1970), downtown havana (1997), Charlotte Credits (1990) and old melodies (1993).
While among his literary analysis texts are Marti’s verses (1968), Bécquer or the slight mist (1971), talk about poetry (1986) and The family of origins (1997).
On the island she was recognized with the National Prize for Literature in 1990 and received the José Martí Order, the Alejo Carpentier medal and the Félix Varela order.
While at the international level he was awarded the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize in 2007, the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry in 2011 and the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize also in 2011.
García Marruz and Cintio Vitier were among the intellectuals who signed the “Message from Havana for friends who are far away”, document supporting the regime that justified the summary executions, internationally condemned, against the three young Cubans who tried to kidnap the Baraguá boatwith the aim of reaching the United States in it.
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