Today, Monday afternoon, the poet and essayist passed away in Havana. Fine Garcia Marruz.
Born in the Cuban capital in 1923, García Marruz was part of the legendary group of poets gathered around the magazine origins (1944-1956) with her husband Cintio Vitier.
From 1962 she worked as a researcher at the José Martí National Library and from its foundation until 1987 at the Center for Martian Studies, where she worked on the critical edition of the Complete works of the Apostle.
In 1990 he received the National Prize for Literature. And in 2011 the VIII Federico García Lorca City of Granada International Poetry Prize. And later the Pablo Neruda and Reina Sofía Award for Ibero-American Poetry.
Among his poetic work, one of the most structured, coherent and elaborated in Cuban poetry of the 20th century, the notebooks stand out. The lost looks 1944-1950 (1951), Visitations (1970), Charlotte credits (1990), V.old melodies (1993) and Elementary notions and some elegies (1994).
She was the author of numerous important studies, including Poems of Juana Borrero (1967), Marti’s verses (1968), Bécquer or the slight mist (1971), talk about poetry (1986), The family of origins(1997) Y Darío, Martí and the germinal American (2001).
A sensible loss for the national culture. Our condolences to family, friends and colleagues.
