Juana de Ibarbourou
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Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, was a Uruguayan poet and one of the most popular writers of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly er
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Juana's birthplace
The 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times" He i
Juana de Ibarbourou
…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. 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…
"for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times."
The Nobel committee proposed that the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature should be awarded to the Danish author Karen Blixen.