Who is rosario ferre

Ferre, and seen in the file photo with brother Luis c. Ferre, has died of natural causes. She was Mayor Maria Melendez Altieri of Ponce, the southern Puerto Rican municipality where the author was born, regretted the passing of Ramirez de Arellano, whom she described as "a great human being who won great recognition for our country through her letters and literature that evinced such a deep love for her city and her country. While Ferre Ramirez de Arellano studied at the University of Puerto Rico, she founded in , together with several of her companions, the student literary magazine "Zona de Carga y Descarga," which offered a space for publishing new authors who as yet had no access to the island's established literary publications.

In she launched the novel "Maldito Amor," and in she published "La Batalla de las Virgenes," based on the practice of Catholicism in Puerto Rico. After two decades of publishing in Spanish, Ferre Ramirez de Arellano presented her first work written in English, the novel "The House in the Lagoon," which brought her a nomination at the U.

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