Trinidad Morgades Besari

Trinidad Morgades Besari (24 April 1931 – 10 October 2019) was an Equatorial Guinean writer, academic and diplomat. She was the first Equatoguinean woman to receive a university education.

Early life and education Morgades Besari was born in Santa Isabel (now Malabo) in 1931.

Career In 1959, Morgades Besari became a professor of Language and Literature at the School of Teaching of the Ministry of Santa Isabel in Malabo. She attended the WHO Conference in Addis Ababa in 1964 and was appointed Director at the Cardenal Cisneros Institute, University of Alcalá in 1965. She wrote and premiered a theatrical work called Antígona, a reformulation of Sophocles' Antigone. In 2005, she was appointed vice rector of the National University of Equatorial Guinea. She left his post in 2010 when she was appointed correspondent academician of the Royal Spanish Academy.