Juana de Ibarbourou
Uruguayan writer
- Lived
- 1892–1979
- Country
- Uruguay
- Also writes as
- Juana de América, Jeannette d’Ibar, Jeannette d’Ivar
Updated September 2026
About Juana de Ibarbourou
Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, was a Uruguayan poet and one of the most popular writers of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly erotic, is notable for her identification of her feelings with nature around her. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959, 1960 and 1963.
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