García Marruz was born in Havana on 28 April 1923. She had received numerous awards, including the National Prize for Literature (1990),[2] Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Award (2007), and the Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana (2011).[3] García Marruz died on 27 June 2022, at the age of 99.[4]