[2] Nivaria Tejera, the daughter of a Cuban mother and a Spanish father from the Canary Islands,[3] was born in Cuba in 1929.
Before she was two, she moved with her parents to Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, where her father was taken prisoner at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
In 1959 she returned to Cuba to work for the Republic, and several years later she served for the Cuban government as a cultural attaché in Rome.
In 1965, she broke her political ties to Cuba and returned to Paris,[4] where she died in 2016 from pancreatic cancer, aged 86.
[5] Tejera was awarded the Seix Barral Premio Biblioteca Breve in 1971 for her novel Sonámbulo del sol.