Ángela Figuera Aymerich (October 30, 1902 in Bilbao – April 2, 1984 in Madrid) was a Basque and Spanish poet and writer.
[1] Angela was born in Bilbao, Spain into a middle class family, but due to her mother's poor health, Figuera spent much of her childhood raising her eight younger siblings.
Figuera went on to the University of Madrid and graduated with a degree in philosophy and humanities and then passed the official exams to earn a permanent teaching position as Professor of Language and Literature at the Institutes of Huelvaat.
[3] She continued to write "using humble words to write on issues that are still serious today: she wrote about injustices, about freedom in the twentieth century, about freedom crushed a thousand times, about the child who died at birth, and also about women's equality and rights," said Juan Mari Aburto, the mayor of Bilbao, at a dedication held at the Ángela Figuera Institute in 2018.
[6] She has been remembered by author Jose Ramón Zabala as "a real hinge between Basque and Madrid cultural circles.