Alicia Graciana Eguren | |
Birth Date: | 11 October 1925 |
Birth Place: | Buenos Aires |
Disappeared Status: | Dead |
Death Place: | Río de la Plata |
Death Cause: | Victim of state assassination |
Alma Mater: | Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires |
Occupation: | Revolutionary, Poet, Writer, Journalist, Professor |
Years Active: | 1946–1977 |
Organization: | Sexto Continete Newspaper |
Party: | Peronism Revolutionary Peronist Acction Revolutionary Peronism Anti-Imperialst Front for Socialism |
Otherparty: | Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces |
Spouse: | Pedro Catella John William Cooke |
Children: | Pedro Gustavo Catella Eguren |
Footnotes: | Lieutenant to Che Guevara |
Alicia Graciana Eguren (Buenos Aires, 1924 - Buenos Aires, 26 January 1977) was an Argentine teacher, poet, essayist and journalist.
Eguren graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as a teacher of literature. She worked as a teacher of literature both in Buenos Aires and Rosario, Santa Fe. She worked at the newspaper Con Todo and the magazine Nuevo Hombre. She also edited the cultural magazine Sexto Continente. In 1946, she met and later married the Peronist leader, John William Cooke in a study center. Between 1946 and 1951, she published five books of poetry, which had a tendency to Catholic idealism. In 1953, she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and married the diplomat Pedro Catella, whom she accompanied to London.[1] [2] [3]