The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, lamented this Tuesday the death of the renowned poet, essayist, researcher and literary critic Fina García Marruz, who died the day before at the age of 99.

In his Twitter profile, the president sent his condolences to the relatives of the 1990 National Literature Prize winner, who shared with his life partner Cintio Vitier the love for José's ideology and literary work. Marti.

My condolences to the Vitier García Marruz family and to the Cuban culture, for the extraordinary life that ceases. Thanks to Fina, the poetess who made us hear the silence, the Martian companion of the Martian poet, the vibrant voice of #Cuba in Latin America, Díaz-Canel wrote.

Josefina García-Marruz Badía, artistically known as Fina García Marruz, was born in Havana on April 28, 1923 and almost four decades later she received her doctorate in Social Sciences from the University of Havana.

She was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Clavileño and the publication Orígenes (1944-1956), headed by the narrator José Lezama Lima, famous for his work Paradiso, and also made up of her husband Cintio Vitier, Eliseo Diego, Octavio Smith, Gastón Baquero, Angel Gaztelu and Cleva Solis.

Among her works, texts such as Credits by Charlot, Los Rembrandts del Hermitage, Viejas Melodies, and Habana del Centro stand out.

García Marruz worked as a literary researcher at the José Martí National Library and at the Marti Studies Center, since its creation in 1977, and she was Emeritus Professor at the University of Havana.

The intellectual she deserved foreign distinctions such as the Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize (2007), dedicated to the recognition of writers with an outstanding career in that region, and the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry (2011).

In 2011, she was the third woman to win the 8th Federico García Lorca City of Granada International Poetry Prize, award that recognizes the poetic work of a living author who, due to its literary value, constitutes a relevant contribution to the cultural heritage of Granada. Hispanic literature.

She obtained multiple orders and national distinctions such as: "Alejo Carpentier" Order, "Félix Varela" Order, "José Martí" Order (2013), Distinction for National Culture and Raúl Gómez García Distinction.

She was also awarded the National Prize for Literature (1990) and the National Prize for Cultural Research (2005).

We share a poem that she dedicated to the capital of all Cubans:

The noble Havana

Why, madam?

the air, the challenge,

sturdy leg and bootie

and pigeon chest?

Why, conqueror,

on the rare cliffs

of unequal angles

you rise, disdaining

down the dark pit of waters?

Castle of the Force,

giraldilla,

your grace and victory.

Is that why the success

of the profound grace of size,

turned and short, warped

as pitcher, host?

what do you know lady

of the Great Key,

leaning on your own openness

to the open gulfs?

Will the open be your secret,

noble Havana, Lady,

your brief corpulence,

so funny,

That's why it will have that bird profile

-the foot well settled-

and that light air

braggart?