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Dora Varona Gil (19 June 1932 – 7 March 2018) was a Cuban-Peruvian poet, narrator, and missionary. After the death of her husband, Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, she compiled, edited, and studied his work.

Dora Varona
Born
Dora Varona Gil

(1932-06-19)19 June 1932
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Died7 March 2018(2018-03-07) (aged 85)
Lima, Peru
NationalityCuban
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid
OccupationWriter, missionary
SpouseCiro Alegría (1957–1967)
Children
  • Cecilia Alegría Varona [es]
  • Gonzalo Alegría Varona [es]
RelativesEnrique José Varona (grandfather)

Biography


Dora Varona was born in Santiago de Cuba on 19 June 1932,[1] the daughter of Ricardo Varona and María Gil, and granddaughter of the writer Enrique José Varona. After completing school in her hometown, she specialized in pedagogy at the University of Oriente in 1951, and later moved to Madrid, where she joined the journalism faculty of the Complutense University in 1955. The following year she obtained the degree of Bachelor in Literature and Hispano-American Literature.

She returned to Cuba, and on 25 May 1957 she married the Peruvian novelist Ciro Alegría, who had been one of her professors at the University of Oriente. Her daughter Maria Cecilia Alegria Vatona was born in Santiago, Cuba, on December 23, 1858. [2] Shortly afterward, she accompanied her husband on his return to Peru, where they decided to settle because of the Cuban Revolution. From her union with Alegría she had four children: Cecilia [es] (born 1958), Ciro Benjamín (born 1961), Gonzalo [es] (born 1962), and Diego (born 1967).[2][3]

After Alegría's death on 17 February 1967, she dedicated herself to rescuing and publishing his manuscripts. For this purpose she founded the publishing house Ediciones Varona (1970–1985), where she came to collect 27 titles in addition to works published during the writer's lifetime.[2]

A deep process of reconnection with the Christian faith led Varona to redefine her literary perspectives. She traveled to Santiago, Chile to pursue studies in Pastoral Theology at the Latin American Institute of Theological Studies in 1989, where she was received as a missionary in 1992. She devoted herself to this work full-time. She was the founder and spiritual counselor of the Faithful Christian Community (Spanish: Comunidad Cristiana Maestro Fiel).

In the late 1990s she resumed compiling and publishing her husband's works. In her last years she lived in Lima, spreading the memory of Ciro Alegría, participating in tributes offered to the writer. On 17 February 2010 she was present at a tribute to Alegría at The House of Peruvian Literature, where she inaugurated an exhibition of his photographs and personal objects, and that was attended by President Alan García.[4]

Dora Varona died in Lima on 7 March 2018 from pulmonary fibrosis.[2][3]


Works



Poetry collections


A collection of 66 sonnets titled Bajo Dios was never published, because, according to her account, it was burned by Ciro Alegría out of a jealous suspicion that one of the sonnets was written about another man.[6]


Prose



Collection and publication of the works of Ciro Alegría


To the four titles published in life by Ciro Alegría (the novels La serpiente de oro [es], Los perros hambrientos [es], and El mundo es ancho y ajeno [es], and the story collection Duelo de caballeros), Dora Varona added 27 volumes based on unpublished manuscripts and writings in Latin American periodicals, as well as editions and anthological reissues.


References


  1. Aragonés, Juan Emilio (1 September 1955). "Aquella Promoción" (PDF). Ateneo (in Spanish). Ateneo de Madrid (87): 40. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  2. Nalvarte Quinteros, Soledad (7 March 2018). "Murió poeta Dora Varona, viuda de Ciro Alegría" [Poet Dora Varona Dies, Widow of Ciro Alegría]. Con Sentido Siempre (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 March 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  3. "Dora Varona: falleció la viuda y biógrafa del escritor Ciro Alegría" [Dora Varona: Widow and Biographer of the Writer Ciro Alegría Passes Away]. Satélite (in Spanish). 8 March 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  4. "Dora Varona: 'Homenaje a Ciro Alegría en Casa de la Literatura Peruana es la culminación de mis sueños'" [Dora Varona: 'Tribute to Cira Alegría at House of Peruvian Literature is the Culmination of My Dreams'] (in Spanish). Lima. Andina. 17 February 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  5. Annales, Volume 4 (in French). Feret & fils. 1968. p. 132. Retrieved 29 April 2019 – via Google Books.
  6. Pavón, Remigio Ricardo (October 2009). "Dora Varona: 'Soy un poco de todas partes, pero soy tremendamente cubana'" [Dora Varona: Dora Varona: 'I'm a Bit of Everywhere, but I'm Tremendously Cuban']. Otro Lunes (in Spanish). No. 10. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  7. Perich, Tatiana (29 May 2008). "Dora Varona, la viuda de Ciro Alegría, recuerda su niñez en su primera novela" [Dora Varona, the Widow of Ciro Alegría, Remembers Her Childhood in Her First Novel]. El Comercio Blogs (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 January 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  8. Escajadillo, Tomás G. (9 August 2008). "Alegría y las equivocaciones de Dora Varona" [Alegría and the Mistakes of Dora Varona]. La República (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2019.




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