María Mercedes Carranza
María Mercedes Carranza (24 May 1945 – 11 July 2003) was a poet and journalist from Bogotá, Colombia, who spent most of her childhood in Spain.
Her father was the poet Eduardo Carranza. He moved to Spain as cultural attache at the Colombian embassy in Madrid. María lived there from ages six to thirteen, with periods in Paris, and under the intellectual influence of her father and her maternal aunt, the poet Elisa Mújica who was also living in Spain during those years.[1]
She promoted the writing of José Asunción Silva.[2] Her work was sometimes referred to as "feminist", as it ridiculed giving women secondary roles, but she rejected the feminist label as "imported" and not fitting her concern on class differences. She had political involvements, joining the 19th of April Movement when it became the M-19 Democratic Alliance. Juan Luis Panero was her second husband.[3] Like Silva, whom she promoted, her death was a suicide.
References
- ↑ Jáuregui, Carlos (2000). "María Mercedes Carranza". In Tompkins, Cynthia Margarita; Foster, David William. Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 71–76.
- ↑ Poetry International Rotterdam
- ↑ Cynthia Tompkins; David William Foster (2001). Notable Twentieth-century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 71–76. ISBN 978-0-313-31112-3.