Alicia Graciana Eguren (Buenos Aires, 1924 - Buenos Aires, 26 January 1977) was an Argentine teacher, poet, essayist and journalist.
Alicia Graciana Eguren | |
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| Born | October 11, 1925 |
| Disappeared | January 27, 1977 |
| Status | Dead |
| Died | September 19, 1977 (aged 51) |
| Cause of death | Victim of state assassination |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires |
| Occupation(s) | Revolutionary, Poet, Writer, Journalist, Professor |
| Years active | 1946–1977 |
| Organization | Sexto Continete Newspaper |
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| Political party | Peronism Revolutionary Peronist Acction Revolutionary Peronism Anti-Imperialst Front for Socialism |
| Other political affiliations | Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces |
| Spouse(s) | Pedro Catella John William Cooke |
| Children | Pedro Gustavo Catella Eguren |
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Lieutenant to Che Guevara | |
Biography
editEguren graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as a teacher of literature. She worked as a teacher of literature both in Buenos Aires and Rosario, Santa Fe. She worked at the newspaper Con Todo and the magazine Nuevo Hombre. She also edited the cultural magazine Sexto Continente. In 1946, she met and later married the Peronist leader, John William Cooke in a study center. Between 1946 and 1951, she published five books of poetry, which had a tendency to Catholic idealism. In 1953, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and married the diplomat Pedro Catella, whom she accompanied to London.[1][2][3]
Selected works
edit- Dios y el mundo,
- El canto de la tierra inicial,
- Poemas del siglo XX,
- Aquí, entre magias y espigas,
- El talud descuajado.
References
edit- ^ Bravas Alicia Eguren de Cooke y Susana Pirí Lugones, Mujeres para una pasión argentina, María Seone, Sudamericana, Buenos Aires ISBN 9789500747394, p. 45 (in Spanish)
- ^ Entrevista a Héctor Jouvet, publicada en Lucha Armada en la Argentina, No. 2, pp. 51-59. Buenos Aires, 2005. (in Spanish)
- ^ Mazzeo, Miguel (26 March 2007). "Notas para una biografía de Alicia Eguren". Archived from the original on February 13, 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
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