Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha [SEP] occupation
Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha
Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha known as Lucila Palacios (8 November, 1902 – 31 August, 1994) was a Trinidadian-Venezuelan writer, politician and diplomat. She was the first woman member of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua.
Life.
Carvajal was born on the island of Trinidad in 1902 in Port of Spain. She took the nom de plume of Lucila Palacios. She chose the name of Lucila in honour of the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral whose real first name was Lucila. Her
, Venezuelan humorists (caricatures category, 1931)
Selected works.
- "Desesperanza"
- "Como la primera vez"
- "Vente con el alba"
- "Noches de luna de Altamira"
- "Contigo"
- "Orquídeas azules" con letra de Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha (Lucila Palacios)
- "Luna de Camoruco"
- "La despedida"
- "Caribe" tema de presentación de Radio Caracas (RCTV) durante mucho tiempo.
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