Mirta Aguirre

Mirta Aguirre Carreras (18 October 1912 – 8 August 1980) was a Cuban poet, novelist, journalist.

She has been called "the most important female academic and woman of letters in post-revolutionary Cuba".

She was a contributor to Juan Ramón Jiménez's 1936 anthology of Cuban poetry.

[1] In the early 1950s she was a regular contributor to the bi-monthly Mujeres cubana [Cuban Women].

[2] Her poetry was influenced by the criollismo of Nicolás Guillen and García Lorca's idea of the 'Romancero gitano', which Aguirre adapted to tell stories of revolutionary achievement.