Josefina Pla [SEP] place of death
Josefina Pla
Josefina Pla (9 November 1903 in Isla de Lobos, Canary Islands, Spain – 11 January 1999 in Asunción, Paraguay) was a Spanish poet, playwright, art critic, painter and journalist.
She received numerous awards and distinctions for her literary work, for defending human rights and the equality between men and women.
Early life.
Josefina Pla was born in Isla de Lobos, Canarias, the daughter of Leopoldo Plá and Rafaela Guerra Galvani. She spent her childhood in diverse cities of Spain
and the Marxist socialists he contacted in Argentina and Uruguay.
In 1938, three years after his return to Paraguay, together with Josefina Pla - who was also back from Europe after the death of her husband, Julian de la Herreriam - he is located in the centre of a movement which has, among others, Augusto Roa Bastos, Oscar Ferreiro, Ezequiel Gonzalez Alsina and Hugo Rodriguez Alcala as members, who were later to be known as “Generacion del 40” in Paraguayan literature. The meeting place of those young