Ernestina de Champourcín [SEP] place of death
Ernestina de Champourcín
Ernestina de Champourcín Morán de Loredo (10 July 1905 in Vitoria-Gasteiz – 27 March 1999 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet. She is most associated with the Generation of '27.
Life.
Ernestina de Champourcín was born in Vitoria in 1905. She married the poet Juan José Domenchina. After the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) the couple moved to Mexico, where Ernestina found work as an interpreter and translator. Domenchina died in 1959. Ernestina returned to Spain in 1972, and
Josefina de la Torre
Josefina de la Torre Millares (1907–2002) was a Spanish poet, novelist, and opera singer, as well as a stage, film, radio, and television actress. She was closely associated with the Generation of '27, an influential group of poets including Ernestina de Champourcín, Juan José Domenchina, Concha Méndez and Carmen Conde, that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry.