Nimia vicens biography

Ideologically, Nimia Vicens and her brother José Juan Vicens Huertas, my grandfather, were polar opposites.
Explore Nimia Vicens's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews.
Vicens wrote much of her poetry following Spain's loss of the Spanish American War, which meant that Puerto Rico belonged to the United States.

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Ideologically, Nimia Vicens and her brother José Juan Vicens Huertas, my grandfather, were polar opposites. In a family of 12 children, they represented extremes in the spectrum of Puerto Rican identity: Nimia was a noted poet and an active member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, known for its fervent calls for Puerto Rican independence from the island’s colonial rulers and, to the party’s enemies, occasional terrorist bombings. José Juan, a politically conservative World War II veteran who served in Europe and retired from the National Guard as a one-star general, had no interest in Puerto Rican autonomy. Instead he hoped his country would become the 51st state, with its residents enjoying the same rights as other US citizens.

My father, José Javier Vicens Morales—who died in 2016, and whom everyone knew as Jay Vicens—and his brother grew up with this contradictory tension between assimilating as mainland Americans and maintaining a distinct Puerto Rican identity. My father left the island in 10th grade and finished his education in California and Florida, where his wh

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Juana de Ibarbourou

Uruguayan poet

Juana de Ibarbourou

Born	Juana Fernández Morales (1892-03-08)March 8, 1892 Melo, Uruguay
Died	July 15, 1979(1979-07-15) (aged 87) Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation	Writer
Spouse	Lucas Ibarbourou
Children	Julio César

Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, (March 8, 1892 – July 15, 1979) was a Uruguayan poet and one of the most popular writers of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly erotic, is notable for her identification of her feelings with nature around her. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959, 1960 and 1963.^[1]

Biography

She was born Juana Fernández Morales on March 8, 1892, in Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay. The date of Juana's birth is often given as March 8, 1895, but according to a local state civil registry signed by two witnesses, the year was actually 1892. Juana began studies at the José Pedro Varela school in 1899 and moved to a religious school the following year, and two public sch