Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (22 March 1886 – 10 December 1962)[1][2] was a Venezuelan poet. She is considered to be one of the founders of the women's poetry movement in Venezuela[3] and one of the country's principal avant-garde poets.[4]
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Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva was born in Barinitas, Venezuela into a wealthy family. She was a sister of the poet Alfredo Arvelo Larriva. Self-taught, she lived most of her life in Barinitas, working as a teacher and nurse on her family's estate.[5]
She was a member of the Viernes Group of poets.[6] In 1958 she was awarded the Municipal Poetry Prize for her Mandato del canto (1957).[4]
Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva died on 10 December 1962 in Caracas, aged 76.[7]
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