Alicia Eguren

Alicia Graciana Eguren (Buenos Aires, 1924 - Buenos Aires, 26 January 1977) was an Argentine teacher, poet, essayist and journalist.

Biography

Eguren 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.

Selected works

Dios y el mundo, El canto de la tierra inicial, Poemas del siglo XX, Aquí, entre magias y espigas, El talud descuajado.

References

1924 births

1977 deaths

Argentine educators

Argentine women educators

20th-century Argentine poets

Argentine women poets

Argentine essayists

Argentine women essayists

Argentine journalists

Argentine women journalists

Writers from Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires alumni

20th-century women writers

20th-century essayists

20th-century journalists