Eulalia Curbelo Barberán, better known as Lalita, was born in 1930 in the City of Holguin, Cuba. He is one of the main figures of social life in Holguin in the second half of the 20th century in Cuba and one of the most important voices of the City of Holguin.
Throughout her 72 years, Lalita Curbelo Barberán accumulated a clean life that if Socrates, that Greek philosopher deeply concerned with human values and knowledge, could evaluate it, would surely point her out as a role model.
Lalita Curbelo Barberán's human life was not easy. Lalita is the example of the role of the family in solving the greatest difficulties of its members. Upon the very early death of her parents, two of her paternal aunts take her in and raise her as a daughter and then she, in loving retribution, will sacrifice much of her life to consecrately care for them.
Much will have to be said about Lalita Curbelo Barberán; of the motivations and sources that led that splendid blonde with magnificent green eyes, an intellectual luminary in the middle classes in Holguin, educated in an environment full of Catholic Christianity and a poet of delicate intimacy, to, in her youth, become a Teacher of the humble, unfailingly linking themselves to Fidel's cause, becoming an expert clandestine fighter, Secretary of the Revolutionary Court, an activist among the masters of the ideas of Martí and Marx.
Those who see Lalita Curbelo Barberán reduced to a writer will not only ignore the dialectic of the Cuban national liberating process, they will also betray their greater definition of a Revolutionary.
Lalita Curbelo Barberán was an exceptional cultural promoter in the field of literature and a creator always open to new times, with outstanding results especially in the field of poetry.
In the future, the Complete Works of Lalita Curbelo Barberán should be published, born from the thousands of pages that she accumulated since 1938.
The epistolary of Lalita Curbelo Barberán, in its more than 2 thousand letters, will amaze with its coherence, its ethical height, its gift of the word. It is not an exaggeration when it is expressed that currently, the only documentary collections of similar breadth and value for the nature of Holguin's being are those of Julio Grave de Peralta and Calixto García.
Upon her death, which occurred on December 28, 2002, at the age of 72, Lalita Curbelo Barberán's physical life was cut short; But his spiritual legacy can grow with the fulfillment of his written will, which began to be outlined in 1969 and was concretized in the 1990s when, upon his death, in his home, and from his funds, his beloved City of Holguin was established. , a Museum of Poetry.
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