Concepción Silva Belinzon was an Uruguayan writer, she was born in

Montevideo Montevideo () is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern ...

in 1903 and died on November 2, 1987. She was characterized primarily by writing volumes of poetry. In her

sonnet A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sicilian city of Palermo. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's inventio ...

s she wrote both, as in

Sapphic ode The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Originally composed in quantitative verse and unrhymed, since the Middle Ages imitations of the form typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest ...

and lira, making an abusive use of rhyme. She began publishing in the early 1940s, and her first book was "The return of the Samaritan woman." She was religious in nature.

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1903 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Uruguayan poets Uruguayan women poets Writers from Montevideo 20th-century Uruguayan women writers {{Uruguay-writer-stub