Who is Ida?

She was born on February 10, 1912, in Asunción. As soon as she finished primary school at the age of 12, endowed with an extraordinary talent, she taught herself French, Italian, Portuguese, and English, in addition to Guarani. Her great mastery of Spanish and Guarani was poured into an important body of work. Esteemed by national and international writers of the time, she became president of the Grupo América Escritores. She also cultivated painting, with works that for their time were cataloged as avant-garde, exhibited in galleries in New York, Washington, and private collections. She is remembered for directing literary gatherings at her residence attended by the most important figures of the national intelligentsia. Her literary work includes a significant corpus of poems, and she also wrote short stories. Her first published poem appeared in 1926 in local newspapers, in the magazine Ñemity, and in other publications. During her lifetime she published only one book, Esto de Andar, through the Péndulo publishing house in 1966, and left a large number of unpublished texts. In 2011, her book Herugua Poty was released, edited by El Lector. Ida Talavera spent her last years away from social and cultural movements, surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She died in Asunción on September 19, 1993.