Vidaluz Meneses Robleto (28 May 1944 – 27 July 2016[1][2]) was a Nicaraguan librarian, poet, dean, and social activist.
Vidaluz Meneses Robleto was the daughter of Vida Robleto Valle and General Edmundo Meneses Cantarero. She attended the Colegio La Asunción for Baccalaureate [es] studies, and joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1977.[3] She held a bachelor's degree in humanities with a minor in library science from Central American University, and became a dean of its Faculty of Arts and Letters. She was co-founder of the Nicaraguan Association of Writers (ANIDE) and its first president. She also chaired its board at various times, the last from 2007 to 2009.[2] She was director of the Nicaraguan chapter of PEN International.[1]
Along with Gioconda Belli and Michele Najlis [es], Meneses is considered to be one of the most prominent Nicaraguan poets of the 1970s.[2]
In 2013 she won the International Latino Book Award for her bilingual poetry book Flame in the Air (Llama guardada),[4] and in 2014 she received the Order of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France for her contribution to arts and letters.[2] Her work, which was translated into six languages, also includes Llama en el Aire – Antología poética 1974 al 1990 (1991), Literatura para niños en Nicaragua (1995), the poetry book Todo es igual y distinto (2004), and the anthologies Sonreír cuando los ojos están serios and La lucha es el más alto de los cantos, both in 2006.[4]
Vidaluz Meneses Robleto died on 27 July 2016 at the age of 72.
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