Aida cartagena portalatin biography of william hill

Dominican poet

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cartagena and the second or maternal family name is Portalatín.

Aída Cartagena Portalatín (June 18, 1918 – June 3, 1994) was a Dominican poet, fiction writer, and essayist who was an influential part of the Poesía Sorprendida movement.

Many works of hers has been translated into English and other languages.

Biography

She was born in Moca, Dominican Republic, where she completed her elementary and secondary education. She is the daughter of Felipe Cartagena Estrella and Olimpia Portalatín.

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She later moved to the capital of the Dominican Republic, where she earned her Doctorate in Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. She pursued her post-graduate studies at École du Louvre in Paris, and majored in museology and theory of fine arts.

In her early career, Cartagena Portalatín was part of the "poesía sorprendida" (surprised poetry) movement in t