Blanca Varela

Blanca Varela is the best poet that has had Peru. Her first poems were published in 1959 in the book Ese puerto existe, which has the prologue of the Mexican poet Octavio Paz. In this first work, she presents surrealistic influence for the language and the oneiric images that she uses. One of the topics about which she speaks is the feminine condition, the woman as mother, friend and lover. She travelled to France with her husband, the painter Fernando de Szyszlo. There she knew the writers Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, whose ideas existencialists influenced her poetry. Lamentably, Blanca Varela has died this year to 82 years old.