Matilde Camus
Spanish poet (1919-2012) · Spain · On the map · Writers · Died at 92
A Spanish poet who spent nearly a century writing - born in 1919, published through the Franco years and beyond, died at 92 having outlasted the regime that shaped her early work.
Matilde Camus is read about 7.5 times a day, in 53 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 110 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?People around Matilde
Close ties
Media & music
About this person
Aurora Matilde Gómez Camus was born in Cantabria on 26 September 1919, into a Spain that would soon convulse. She became a poet, writing through dictatorship and democracy alike, and later turned to non-fiction as well. Her work spanned decades of Spanish literary life, from the post-Civil War silence into the open air of the late 20th century. She kept writing into old age. She died on 28 April 2012, at 92.
