Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva
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Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (22 March 1886 – 10 December 1962){{Cite web|url=https://www.escritores.org/biografias/462-enriqueta-arvelo-larriva|title=Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta|date=12 October 2009 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.poeticous.com/enriqueta-arvelo-larriva|title = Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva}} was a Venezuelan poet. She is considered to be one of the founders of the women's poetry movement in Venezuela{{cite book|author1=Roland Greene|author2=Stephen Cushman|author3=Clare Cavanagh |author4=Jahan Ramazani |author5=Paul F. Rouzer |author6=Harris Feinsod |author7=David Marno |author8=Alexandra Slessarev|title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJVlZjIe5o8C&pg=PA1504|year=2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-15491-6|page=1504}} and one of the country's principal avant-garde poets.Jorge Romero Leon, 'Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta', in Daniel Balderston & Mike Gonzalez, Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003, p. 40
Biography
Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva was born in Barinitas, Venezuela into a wealthy family. She was a sister of the poet Alfredo Arvelo Larriva. Self-taught, she lived most of her life in Barinitas, working as a teacher and nurse on her family's estate.{{cite book|author1=Cecilia Vicuña|author2=Ernesto Livon-Grosman|title=The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJ-Qj-Sx4RoC&pg=PA122|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512454-5|page=122}}
She was a member of the Viernes Group of poets.'Arvelo Larriva, Enriqueta (1886-1963)', in Claire Buck, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, p. 295 In 1958 she was awarded the Municipal Poetry Prize for her Mandato del canto (1957).
Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva died on 10 December 1962 in Caracas, aged 76.[https://www.barinas.net.ve/arte-cultura/barinitas-cuna-poetas-enriqueta-arvelo-larriva-su-voz-aislada Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva su voz aislada]barinas.net.ve {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724181125/https://www.barinas.net.ve/arte-cultura/barinitas-cuna-poetas-enriqueta-arvelo-larriva-su-voz-aislada |date=24 July 2019 }}
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Category:Venezuelan women poets
Category:20th-century Venezuelan poets
Category:20th-century Venezuelan women writers
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