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Marta Terry González (May 7, 1931 – June 18, 2018) was a Cuban librarian. She is known for her leadership of several important libraries in post-revolutionary Cuba, including those of the Junta Central de Planificación (JUCEPLAN), Casa de las Américas, and the National Library José Martí, as well as her role in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
María Teresa Freyre de Andrade (27 January 1896 – 20 August 1975) was a Cuban librarian and information scientist, the founder of the national public library system in Cuba (Red Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas), and a pioneer of modern Cuban librarianship. [1]
Renée Méndez Capote y Chaple (12 November 1901 – 14 May 1989), also known by the pseudonyms Io-san, Berenguela, and Suzanne, was a Cuban writer, essayist, journalist, translator, suffragist, and feminist activist.
She served on an international women's commission, [14] represented Cuba at the First International Feminist Conference in 1926, [1] and was a member of the Women's Advisory Committee of the Institución Hispano-Cubana de Cultura. [15] She also opposed bullfighting in Cuba. [16]
Domitila García Doménico de Coronado was born on 7 May 1847 in Camagüey, Cuba.. On 17 May 1891, she founded the Academy of Women Typographers. [6] She founded and edited various publications, including the journals La Antorcha and El Céfiro together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901). [7]
Nancy Alonso (Havana, 1949 – 3 April 2018) was a Cuban biologist, university professor, and writer.She is an Alba de Céspedes Female Narrative Prize laureate and received an honorable mention in the David Short Story Prize.
Usted es la culpable: Nueva poesía cubana (Havana: Editora Abril, 1985) El pasado del cielo: La nueva y novísima poesía cubana (Medellín: Alejandría Editores, 1994) Most recently, he introduced and compiled a major anthology of 20th century poetry in Cuba, Poesía cubana: Antología esencial, for the Spanish publisher Visor (Madrid: 2011).
He published the Narrativa Cubana de la Revolución (Cuban Narrative of the Revolution) in 1968, and was again arrested for political reasons, and imprisoned for one month in Carabanchel jail. [ 1 ] In 1971 he began working for the Lexicography Seminar of the Royal Spanish Academy , where he stayed until 1975.