Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva Bust in Plaza Los Arvelo Barinitas Born March 22, 1886

Barinitas, Barinas State, Venezuela Death December 10, 1962, 76 years Caracas, Venezuela Venezuelan Nationality Genre poetry Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (n. Barinitas, March 22, 1886 - f. Caracas December 10, 1962) was a poet and writer Venezuela. Biography [edit] His parents were Don Alfredo Arvelo and Dona Mercedes La Riva was the third of five children (Alfred, Mercedes, Lourdes and Aura). Childhood and adolescence were spent in a typical provincial atmosphere of the isolated village, although this distinguished family a passion for reading, its cultural vocation, and their relationships with prominent intellectuals, were relatives of Alberto Arvelo Torrealba and people from other regions , some of which came near to Barinitas in search of Alfredo (his older brother), when it was known poet, and later Harriet, when they had merit. Since then, the influence of Alfredo was accentuated as they stood out as a poet and it was decisive in the family to begin the twentieth century, when he was 17. Very early in the century, in 1905, Henrietta and the family began to suffer from the misfortunes of Alfredo, who saw himself having been absent from home wrapped in lance unfortunate prisoner staff and therefore in Ciudad Bolivar, where he was transferred to Fort San Carlos, near Maracaibo, and later to Caracas. In prison in 1906 published his first book of poems, rhymes Swarm, and more skilled work, Sones and Songs, in 1909. In 1914 he married his sister Lourdes, and the birth of his nephew Luis Alejandro constituted an event of great importance to Harriet, as he, his godson christening, would become for her son that never came to be, as realizing the symbolism etymological godson and godmother. In 1921 her younger sister dies Aura From 1922 Henrietta is delivered to a work of intense literary output. Towards the end of the third decade and was a nationally known writer, and Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva even corresponded with foreign intellectuals, including Gabriela Mistral and Juana de Ibarbourou. It is necessary to leave Barinitas. Finally in February 1930 Harriet decide to visit the metropolis for the first time. In public 1942 Poems of Grief, lamentation over the death of his father. Since 1945 he lives permanently in Caracas, which allows you to stay in constant contact and strengthen its links with distinguished representatives of Venezuelan intellectuals. In 1949 the Government

decided to repatriate the remains of Alfredo Arvelo Larriva, and in this public opportunity excellent biographical note (Alfredo Arvelo Larriva - News of His Life and Work). Mandate public in 1957 and received Canto Municipal Poetry Prize. Already in 1962 at the height of 76 years the arrival of the cold accentuated, and died December 10. Poetic Works [edit] Isolated Voice (1939) The nervous Glass (1941) Poems of Shame (1942) The count song (1949) Mandate of song (1957) Persevering Poems (1960)