Dulce MarÃa Loynaz was born in Havana in December10th, 1902 and died in this city in April 27th, 1997. Daughter of the General of the Cuban Liberation Army (Mambì) Enrique Loynaz del Castillo and sister of the poet Enrique Loynaz Muñoz. She studied with private professors at home. His early poems were published in La Nación, in 1920, the same year she visited the United States of America. From then she carried out numerous trips along North America and almost all Europe. In 1927 she passes the tests to graduate as Doctor in Civil Laws, in the University of Havana. Her new trips also include visits to Turkey, Siria, Lybia, Palestine and Egypt (1929), Mexico (1937), Southamerica (1946-1947) and the Cannary Islands (1947, 1951), where she was officially declared Adoptive Daughter. In 1950 she published weekly chronicles in the cuban newspapers El PaÃs and Excélsior. Besides she collaborated in the Cuban publications: Social, Grafos, Diario de la Marina, El Mundo, Revista Cubana, Revista Bimestre Cubano, OrÃgenes. Invitted by the University of Salamanca she attended to the celebration of the 5th centennial of the Birth of the Catholic Kings (1953). She was elected member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters in 1951, of the Cuban Academy of Language in 1959 and of the Royal Spanis Academy of Language in 1968. Her book Poemas sin nombre was translated into Italian (Milano, Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino, 1955). She also translated Walt Whitman poems and delivered lectures either in Cuba as well as in Spain. In 1961 she quit working as attorney at law. In 1987 she won the National Award on Iterature of Cuba, and in 1992 the Miguel de Cervantes Award conferred by Spain.