Matilde Casazola Mendoza (born February 19, 1942, in Sucre, Bolivia[1]) is a Bolivian poet and songwriter who writes songs rooted in her country's musical traditions.
She has held the Guitar Chair for several years at the National School of Folklore “Mauro Núñez Cáceres” in the city of La Paz.
Casazola's most important publications include Obra Poética (Imprenta Judicial, Sucre, 1996), which compiled twelve of her poetry books, and Canciones del Corazón para la Vida (Ediciones Gráficas EG, La Paz, 1998), a songbook that includes forty of her compositions of writing and music.
Her work is cited in national and foreign anthologies and her songs have been covered by renowned artists such as Emma Junaro, Luis Rico, and Jenny Cárdenas.
In 2006 the Italian-Bolivian filmmaker Paolo Agazzi premiered his film "El atraco" where the composer Cergio Prudencio musicalized poems by Matilde Casazola, performed by Spanish singer and actress Lucía Jiménez, one of them entitled La noche más cruel.