Graciela Palau de Nemes

Graciela Palau de Nemes (March 24, 1919 – September 28, 2019) was a Cuban literary critic who specialized in critiquing Spanish and Latin American literature, with a particular focus on the works of poet Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Education Nemes enrolled at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1946, where she met Juan Ramón Jiménez. Jiménez served as Nemes' mentor while she pursued her master's and doctoral degrees in addition to teaching language. Nemes completed her master's degree in 1949 and her doctoral degree in 1952.

Career

Teaching Graciela Palau de Nemes joined the University of Maryland as a teacher in 1953 and continued her role as an educator until her retirement in 1989 as Professor Emerita in the Foreign Languages Department. Even after retirement, she continued to teach and give lectures at the University of Maryland until 2011. and the Medal for Civil Merit from the Spanish government's Order of Civil Merit.

List of works

Vida y obra de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1957) Inicios de Zenobia y Juan Ramón Jiménez en América (1982)