Writer and poet · 1929-2016
Writer and poet
Nivaria Tejera was a writer and poet born in Cienfuegos in 1929, connected from childhood with Tenerife and with an Atlantic literature spanning Cuba, the Canary Islands and Parisian exile.
Nivaria Tejera was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on 30 September 1929. She spent her childhood in Tenerife, an experience that forms part of her biographical and literary relationship with the archipelago.
Her novel Sonámbulo del sol received Seix Barral's Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1971. Her work belongs to a network of exchanges between Hispanic American, Canarian and Macaronesian literatures.
This perspective avoids reducing her to a single national category: her career connects Cuba, Tenerife and Paris.
