Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (22 March 1886 – 10 December 1962) was a Venezuelan poet. She is considered to be one of the founders of the women's poetry movement in Venezuela 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.
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.Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva su voz aisladabarinas.net.ve
Works Voz aislada (Isolated Voice), 1930 El cristal nervioso (The Narrow Mirror), 1931 Poemas de una pena (Poems of Shame) 1942 El canto del recuento (Counting Song) 1949 Mandato del canto; poemas, 1944-1946 (Mandate to Sing), Caracas, 1957 Poemas perseverantes (Persistent Poems), 1963
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