Cuban Province will pay tribute to poetess Carilda Oliver Labra

The Cuban province of Matanzas will pay tribute with different activities to the figure of poet Carilda Oliver Labra to commemorate the 102nd anniversary of her birth.

Author of extraordinary titles such as Al sur de mi garganta (1949), Versos de amor (1963), La ceiba me dijo tú (1979), Desaparece el polvo (1983), Se me ha perdido un hombre (1993) and Libreta de la recién casada (1998), just to mention a few, Oliver Labra has become an icon of contemporary literature in Cuba.

With the inauguration of the second phase of the patrimonial photographic exhibition at Tirry 81, headquarters of the project Al Sur de mi garganta, it will be possible to observe testimonial images of the encounters of the National Literature Prize winner with great international and Cuban personalities.

Owner of a literature with great eroticism, sensuality, expressions of freedom and a language capable of touching the deepest inside of readers, lovers of her artistic trajectory will recreate in the exhibition some fragments of the life of the author of the emblematic Canto a Matanzas.

The National Poetry Prize (1950) still keeps her works in force within the vicissitudes of today's literature, and she has gained followers of all generations thanks to the maturity of her texts.

For the professor of painting, drawing and sculpture, writing as deeply as she could endow her ideas was never an obstacle and that literary uninhibition made her worthy of a sacred place in the cultural heritage of the Greater Antilles.

Today Oliver Labra is remembered 102 years after her arrival to the world and after almost six years of her physical disappearance, the space in the mansion of Tirry 81 will remain as a center of obligatory visit to remember the legacy of the Bride of Matanzas.