Dulce María Loynaz

Dulce María Loynaz was born in Havana on 10 December 1902. She died there in 1997. The Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes documents her legal training, literary career, works such as Versos and Jardín, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize she received in 1992.

Her presence in the Canary Islands rests on concrete facts. In 1946 she married the Canarian journalist Pablo Álvarez de Cañas; in 1947 she gave poetry recitals in the islands; and in 1951 she visited Tenerife, delivered lectures and received a tribute at the Gran Hotel Taoro. That same year she was named an adopted daughter of Puerto de la Cruz.

The Canarian link in this profile should be understood as a literary and Atlantic connection, not as Canarian birth. Un verano en Tenerife, published in 1958, records that stay and justifies her presence in this corpus alongside Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and other cultural spaces in the islands.