her first volume of poetry, "Ese puerto existe," followed in 1963 by "Luz de dia" and in 1971 by "Valses y otras confesiones."Varela was honored in 2007 with Spain's Queen Sofia Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.
She had also been awarded the Octavio Paz Prize in Poetry and Essay in 2001 and was the first woman to win the Federico Garcia Lorca City of Granada International Poetry Prize in 2006.
from Latin American Herald Tribune: Peruvian Poet Blanca Varela Dies
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