Luz Machado (

Ciudad Bolívar Ciudad Bolívar (; Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura and St. Thomas de Guyana, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar, Venezuela, Bolívar State. It lies at the spot where the Orinoco River narrows to about ...

, February 3, 1916 – August 11, 1999, pseudonym: Ágata Cruz) was a

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n political activist, journalist and poet. She founded the Circle of Venezuelan Writers (''Círculo Escritores de Venezuela'') and was a member of Bolivarian Society (''Sociedad Bolivariana''). She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.

Books

* ''Ronda'' * ''Variaciones en tono de amor'' * ''Vaso de resplandor'' * ''Canto al Orinoco'' * ''Sonetos nobles y sentimentales'' * ''Sonetos a la sombra de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz'' * ''Retratos y tormentos'' * ''Crónicas sobre Guayana''

Prizes

* Medalla de Plata, Asociación de Escritores Venezolanos. * Premio Nacional de Literatura de Venezuela, 1987. * Orden Francisco Miranda, 1993

References

External links

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Poemas y relatos: Biografía Luz Machado
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Analítica: Luz Machado
1916 births 1999 deaths People from Ciudad Bolívar Venezuelan women poets 20th-century Venezuelan poets 20th-century Venezuelan women writers 20th-century Venezuelan journalists {{venezuela-writer-stub