What is Claribel Alegría?
{{Infobox writer | name = Claribel Alegría | image = Claribel Alegria.jpg | caption = Alegría at the 3rd annual International Poetry Festival in [[Granada, Nicaragua|Granada]]. | pseudonym = Claribel Alegría | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1924|5|12}} | birth_place = [[Estelí]], [[Nicaragua]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|1|25|1924|5|12}} | death_place =[[Managua]], Nicaragua | occupation = Poet, novelist | nationality = Nicaraguan | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = }} '''Clara Isabel Alegría Vides'''<ref>{{cite news| title =Claribel Alegría - 1924| url =http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/memorias/escritoras_hispano01/pbclaribel.htm| work =Escritoras de Hispanoamerica| access-date =2007-10-24| archive-date =2007-10-12| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20071012021824/http://redescolar.ilce.edu.mx/redescolar/memorias/escritoras_hispano01/pbclaribel.htm| url-status =dead}}</ref> (May 12, 1924 &ndash; January 25, 2018) was a [[Nicaragua]]n poet, [[essay]]ist, novelist, and journalist. She was a major voice in the literature of [[contemporary]] [[Central America]]. She wrote under the [[pseudonym]] '''Claribel Alegría'''.<ref>{{cite news| title=Claribel Alegría| url =http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002775/Claribel-Alegria| work =Encyclopædia Britannica| access-date = 2007-10-24}}</ref> She was awarded the 2006 [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]]. Her first book, ''[[Anillo de Silencio]]'' (''Ring of Silence'') was published in 1948. She retired in 2003. Alegría later lived in [[Managua]], Nicaragua. She died on 25 January 2018, aged 93.<ref>[https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/01/25/actualidad/1516903304_337221.html Muere la poeta nicaragüense Sofía Claribel Alegría] {{in lang|es}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alegria, Claribel}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Journalists]] [[Category:Nicaraguan writers]] [[Category:Nort