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Delmira Agustín

  • Was born

    Was born
    In Montevideo Uruguay
  • 1891

    1891
    At age five I already knew how to read and write correctly
  • 1902

    1902
    At the age of sixteen, he began publishing his first poems in the magazine La Alborada.
  • 1913

    1913
    a horse merchant, he married on August 14, 1913 (Juan Zorrilla de San Martín distinguished himself from the wedding witnesses) and Manuel Ugarte, whom Demira had fallen in love with shortly before getting married and to whom a few months later she would say "he had been the torment of her wedding night") Before the month and a half of the wedding is celebrated, she abandons her husband and files for divorce.
  • 1914

    1914
    He immediately maintains love correspondence, with the Argentine writer Manuel Ugarte. Her ex-husband (as they had been granted a divorce on June 5, 1914), killed Delmira in Montevideo on July 6, 1914, with two bullets to the head (or according to others stabbed), and He immediately commits suicide by shooting himself