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Dora Varona (Dora Varona Gil) was born on 19 June, 1932 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, is a Cuban-Peruvian poet, narrator, and missionary (1932–2018). Discover Dora Varona's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Dora Varona Gil
Occupation Writer, missionary
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 19 June 1932
Birthday 19 June
Birthplace Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Date of death 2018
Died Place Lima, Peru
Nationality Peru

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Who Is Dora Varona's Husband?

Her husband is Ciro Alegría (1957–1967)

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Husband Ciro Alegría (1957–1967)
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Children Cecilia Alegría Varona Gonzalo Alegría Varona

Dora Varona Net Worth

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1858

Her daughter Maria Cecilia Alegria Vatona was born in Santiago, Cuba, on December 23, 1858.

Shortly afterward, she accompanied her husband on his return to Peru, where they decided to settle because of the Cuban Revolution.

1932

Dora Varona Gil (19 June 1932 – 7 March 2018) was a Cuban-Peruvian poet, narrator, and missionary.

After the death of her husband, Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, she compiled, edited, and studied his work.

Dora Varona was born in Santiago de Cuba on 19 June 1932, the daughter of Ricardo Varona and María Gil, and granddaughter of the writer Enrique José Varona.

1951

After completing school in her hometown, she specialized in pedagogy at the University of Oriente in 1951, and later moved to Madrid, where she joined the journalism faculty of the Complutense University in 1955.

The following year she obtained the degree of Bachelor in Literature and Hispano-American Literature.

1957

She returned to Cuba, and on 25 May 1957 she married the Peruvian novelist Ciro Alegría, who had been one of her professors at the University of Oriente.

1958

From her union with Alegría she had four children: Cecilia Alegría Varona (born 1958), Ciro Benjamín (born 1961), Gonzalo Alegría Varona (born 1962), and Diego (born 1967).

1967

After Alegría's death on 17 February 1967, she dedicated herself to rescuing and publishing his manuscripts.

1970

For this purpose she founded the publishing house Ediciones Varona (1970–1985), where she came to collect 27 titles in addition to works published during the writer's lifetime.

A deep process of reconnection with the Christian faith led Varona to redefine her literary perspectives.

1989

She traveled to Santiago, Chile to pursue studies in Pastoral Theology at the Latin American Institute of Theological Studies in 1989, where she was received as a missionary in 1992.

She devoted herself to this work full-time.

She was the founder and spiritual counselor of the Faithful Christian Community (Comunidad Cristiana Maestro Fiel).

1990

In the late 1990s she resumed compiling and publishing her husband's works.

In her last years she lived in Lima, spreading the memory of Ciro Alegría, participating in tributes offered to the writer.

2010

On 17 February 2010 she was present at a tribute to Alegría at The House of Peruvian Literature, where she inaugurated an exhibition of his photographs and personal objects, and that was attended by President Alan García.

2018

Dora Varona died in Lima on 7 March 2018 from pulmonary fibrosis.

A collection of 66 sonnets titled Bajo Dios was never published, because, according to her account, it was burned by Ciro Alegría out of a jealous suspicion that one of the sonnets was written about another man.

To the four titles published in life by Ciro Alegría (the novels La serpiente de oro, Los perros hambrientos, and El mundo es ancho y ajeno, and the story collection Duelo de caballeros), Dora Varona added 27 volumes based on unpublished manuscripts and writings in Latin American periodicals, as well as editions and anthological reissues.