Luisa Pérez de Zambrana
Cuban writer
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| Intro | Cuban writer | |
| Places | Cuba | |
| was | Writer | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 25 August 1837, Santiago de Cuba | |
| Death | 25 March 1922Havana (aged 84 years) |
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Biography
Luisa Pérez de Zambrana (née Luisa Pérez y Montes de Oca; 25 August 1837, El Cobre – 25 March 1922, Havana) was a Cuban writer and translator. She was one of Cuba's greatest poets.
Life
Perez, was born near El Cobre in 1837, and was married in 1858 to Dr. Ramon Zambrana, an eminent man of letters of Havana. She wrote a lot when young, and published a volume of poems in 1856. In addition to her poems she wrote "Angelica and Estrella" and other novels, and she also translated other works from French and Italian.