Magdalena Spínola, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Magdalena Spínola

Guatemalan teacher, poet and journalist

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1896

Place of Birth: Jutiapa, Jutiapa Department, Guatemala

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1991

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Guatemala

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Magdalena Spínola

  • Magdalena Spínola (1896–1991) was a Guatemalan teacher, poet and journalist.
  • Orphaned at a young age, she found encouragement from her childhood neighbor Miguel Ángel Asturias for her literary dreams.
  • After graduating from the country's Teacher's College, she taught school at a private academy and began to publish poems. Though her husband was part of dictator Jorge Ubico Castañeda's cabinet, they became enemies and Efraín Aguilar Fuentes, her husband, was arrested and shot.
  • She was briefly arrested as well and ostracized by many.
  • She was an ardent feminist and became outspoken about political issues after the fall of Ubico's government. She was the biographer of Gabriela Mistral and one of the first female erotic poets of Central America.

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