Matilde Camus

Spanish poet (1919–2012)

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1919–2012
Aged 93

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Updated 2026-06-21

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.

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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.

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