What is Carilda Oliver Labra?
'''Carilda Oliver Labra''' (6 July 1922 – 29 August 2018) was a Cuban poet. She was born in [[Matanzas]].<ref name=CB>{{cite web |title=Carlida Oliver Labra: Poetry and Total Love |author=Luis Sexto |work=CubaNow |url=http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?secc=1&cont=feature/num9/carildabiog.htm |access-date=2006-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609224210/http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?secc=1&cont=feature%2Fnum9%2Findex.htm |archive-date=June 9, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Urbano Martínez Carmenate|title=Carilda Oliver Labra: La Poesía Como Destino|date=2004|publisher=Editorial Letras Cubanas|location=Cuba|page=485}}</ref> Oliver Labra studied law at the [[University of Havana]].<ref name=CB/> She was known as one of the most influential Cuban poets.<ref name=DB>{{cite web |last=Gioseffi |first=Daniela |title=Carilda Oliver Labra |publisher=The Drunken Boat |url=http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/labra.html |access-date=2006-12-13}}</ref> Oliver Labra won many national and international prizes including the National Poetry Prize (1950), [[National Prize for Literature (Cuba)|National Literature Award]] (1997) and the José de Vasconcelos International Prize (2002).<ref name=CB/> ''Me desordeno, amor, me desordeno'' might be her most famous poem. Oliver Labra died of [[pneumonia]] in Matanzas on 29 August 2018, aged 96.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/mundo/america-latina/cuba-es/article217506105.html|title=Fallece la poetisa cubana Carilda Oliver Labra a los 96 años|website=elnuevoherald}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliver Labra, Carilda}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Cuban poets]]