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Died 11 July 2003, Bogotá, Colombia Books Song of the Flies (An Account of the Events): Poems by Maria Mercedes Carranza Similar Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, Eduardo Cote Lamus, Belisario Betancur, Leopoldo María Panero | ||
María Mercedes Carranza (24 May 1945 – 11 July 2003) was a poet and journalist from Bogotá, Colombia, who spent most of her childhood in Spain.
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Childhood
She was the second child of Rosa Coronado and poet Eduardo Carranza. Her father was a prestigious 1951 poet, he moved to Spain as cultural attache at the Colombian embassy in Madrid. María lived there from ages six to thirteen, with periods in Paris, and under the intellectual influence of her father and her maternal aunt, the poet Elisa Mújica who was also living in Spain during those years. " Fable of my childhood was woven by their legends and stories; with her I discovered the power of the word" ( Carranza in an interview with Carlos Jáuregui)
The family returns in 1958 to Columbia's capital, where the young Maria Mercedes lives a difficult period of re adaptation to her native country. "When I came back, I still played with dolls and didn't know how babies were born. I had left Spain and my childhood, and I felt a terrible cultural nostalgia that I faced with the decision to belong to Columbia". There she finished her secondary studies with bilungual secretariat, to later study philosophy and literature, first in madrid and later, intermittent between 1965 and 1978, in the University of Los Andes (Colombia) in Bogotá, where she graduated with a thesis on her father's work.This thesis would later become one of the most authorized studies about Eduardo Carranza,
She promoted the writing of José Asunción Silva. Her work was sometimes referred to as "feminist", as it ridiculed giving women secondary roles, but she rejected the feminist label as "imported" and not fitting her concern on class differences. She had political involvements, joining the 19th of April Movement when it became the M-19 Democratic Alliance. Juan Luis Panero was her second husband. Like Silva, whom she promoted, her death was a suicide.