Aurora de Albornoz

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aurora de Albornoz (January 22, 1926 - June 6, 1990) was born in Luarca, Asturias, Spain. As a youth, she lived in Luarca with her parents, sister, and extended family, throughout the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939- an event that inspired her later poetry.Her family was a noted family of poets and politicians. Her grandfather and father were well known local poets. Her father's uncle, Álvaro de Albornoz, was the minister of the Department of Justice of the Republican government of Spain until the Civil War. Eventually, he became the president of the Republican government of Spain in exile in Paris and Mexico that was superseded by Franco's dictatorship. In 1959, her uncle, Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (who had fled Spain on a Republican passport) while living and working in the United States, was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Arthur Kornberg for deciphering RNA.