Alaíde Foppa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alaíde Foppa

poet, writer, feminist, art critic, teacher and translator

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1914

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1980

Profession: writer, teacher, poet, translator, art critic, diarist

Nationality: Spain, Mexico, Guatemala

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Alaíde Foppa (1914 – c.
1980?) was a poet, writer, feminist, art critic, teacher and translator.
Born in Barcelona, Spain she held Guatemalan citizenship and lived in exile in Mexico.
She worked as a professor in both Guatemala and Mexico.
Much of her poetry was published in Mexico and she co-founded one of the first feminist publications, Fem, in the country.
After her husband's death, she made a trip to Guatemala to see her mother and renew her passport.
She was detained and disappeared in Guatemala City on 19 December 1980, presumed to be murdered.
Some sources note the date of her disappearance as 9 December 1980.