Angelina Acuña [SEP] date of birth
Angelina Acuña
María Angelina Acuña Sagastume de Castañeda (31 January 1905, Jutiapa – 14 June 2006, Jutiapa) was a Guatemalan writer of prose and poetry. A major poetry figure in her country, she was especially known for her rigor in managing classical verse within the sonnet. The writer Margarita Carrera called Acuña the "sister in spirit of Gabriela Mistral".
Biography.
María Angelina Acuña Sagastume de Castañeda was born on 31 January 1905 to Francisco Acuña and Adela Sagastume de Acuña in Jutiapa, Guatemala.
National Newspaper Library of Mexico in 1932. In 1927, Acuña directed the Sixth Cultural Mission ("Crusade Against Illiteracy") of the Secretary of Public Education (SEP). The program installed seven social missions to serve the indigenous communities in the states of Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas.
Elisa Acuña died on 12 November 1946 in Mexico City. On 16 November 2010, to mark the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, her remains were moved from "Civil Pateón of Dolores" in Mexico City, where she