Zenobia Camprubí, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zenobia Camprubí

Spanish writer of Catalan and Puerto Rican descent

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1887

Place of Birth: Malgrat de Mar, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1956

Profession: writer, poet, translator, linguist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Zenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore. She was born in Malgrat de Mar (province of Barcelona, Catalonia) to a Puerto Rican mother and a Spanish father. She later lived in the United States, studied in Columbia University, and spent the duration of the Spanish Civil War (18 July 1936 – 1 April 1939) writing her Diario ("Diary") in Cuba.
Her brother, José Camprubí, was owner and publisher of La Prensa, New York's most important Spanish-language daily newspaper, from 1918 to 1942.She eventually became a professor at the University of Maryland before her death from ovarian cancer, aged 69, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, two days after her husband Juan Ramón Jiménez received the Nobel Prize in Literature.



Alternative names	Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Description	Spanish painter and university teacher
Date of birth/death	27 February 1863	10 August 1923
Location of birth/death	Valencia (Spain)	Cercedilla (Spain)
Work location	Valencia, Paris, Rome, Madrid
Authority control	: Q351746 VIAF: 8190537 ISNI: 0000 0001 1872 7409 ULAN: 500018256 LCCN: n81106801 WGA: SOROLLA Y BASTIDA, Joaquín WorldCat