Winétt de Rokha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Winétt de Rokha

Chilean writer

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1892

Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1951

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Chile

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Winétt de Rokha

  • Winétt de Rokha was the mid-career pen name of the Chilean poet and writer Luisa Victoria Anabalón Sanderson (July 7, 1892 – August 7, 1951).
  • Born to a patrician Catholic family in Santiago, she published two books before she was twenty-one—under another pseudonym, Juana Inés de la Cruz (a variation upon the name of the seventeenth century Mexican poet and nun).
  • In 1916, she met and eloped with the poet Pablo de Rokha (who was born Carlos Diaz Loyola).
  • Together they invented her nom de plume.
  • The De Rokha marriage produced nine children, seven of whom survived infancy.
  • The De Rokha family, though touched several times by tragedy, became a famously accomplished Chilean clan. From the late 1920s through the late 1940s, Winétt de Rokha published four collections of poetry upon which her literary reputation today largely rests: Formas del Sueño (1927), Cantoral (1936), Oniromancia (1943), and El Valle Pierde Su Atmósfera (1949).

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