Sor juana ines dela cruz biography wikipedia

Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana (12 November 1648, San Miguel Nepantla, New Spain - 17 April 1695, Mexico, New Spain), better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a writer and Catholic nun in New Spain. She was in the Catholic Order of Saint Jerome. She was a well known writer of the Spanish Golden Age of the literature in Spanish.

Early life

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Juana was born in San Miguel Nepantla in Tepetlixpa municipality as the illegitimate daughter of Don Pedro Manuel de Asuaje y Vargas-Machuca, a Spanish navy captain from the Canary Islands involved in colonial transatlantic shipping and trade, and Doña Isabel Ramírez de Santillana y Rendón, a distinguished criolla, whose father leased the Hacienda de Panoaya, in Amecameca.

Works

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• La segunda Celestina
• Los empeños de una Casa
• 1676 - Villancicos, que se cantaron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico. En los maitines de la Purissima Concepcion de Nuestra Señora
• 1689 - Inundacion castalida. Madrid: Juan Garcia Infanson
• 1693 - Segundo tomo de las obras de soror Juana Inés de la Cruz, monja professa en el monasterio del Señor San Geronimo de la ciudad de Mexico. Barcelona: Joseph Llopis
• 1701 - Fama, y obras posthumas, to
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize

Not to be confused with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Recognition.

The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) is a literary prize awarded to a book written in Spanish by a female author. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Current winners of the prize receive USD$10,000.

History

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This prize is named after the 17th century Mexican writer, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz who is considered the first great Latin American poet and one of the most important Hispanic literary figures. Sor Juana was persecuted for being an intellectual, a woman, a nun, and a writer who wrote quite provocatively.

The prize has been given out since 1993, and is given out at the yearly Guadalajara International Book Fair (Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara).

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Biography
1648 - 1695
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