Yolanda Blanco (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Yolanda Blanco (born in 1954) is a Nicaraguan poet. Nicaragua is well known for its world class poets. Before 1970, all of Nicaragua's major poets had been men. Then an outstanding group of women started writing poetry. These poets "are currently writing the best new poetry in their country and would rank among the best new poets in Latin America." Blanco belongs to this group of poets. Yolanda Blanco was born in Managua, Nicaragua. She attended the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua, in Leon, between 1970 and 1971. While studying at the university, she organized the first poetry lectures ever, featuring the top Nicaraguan women poets. Blanco went on to study art history and literature in France. During the Seventies, she worked for the creation of a new society in Nicaragua. However, in 1978, she was forced to move to Venezuela when her family's home was unjustifiably invaded by Sandinista officials. Although she was a well known young Nicaraguan poet during the Eighties, Blanco was not paraded by the Sandinista regime because she did not belong to its party.