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  • NAME: Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillan
  • OCCUPATION: Nun, Playwright, Poet
  • BIRTH DATE: c. November 12, 1651
  • DEATH DATE: April 17, 1695
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: San Miguel Nepantia, Viceroyalty of New Spain, Mexico
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Mexico City, Mexico
  • Originally: Juana Ramírez de Asbaje
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Juana Inés de la Cruz was writer, nun and scholar. Mexico acknowledges her as one of the Latin America's most outstanding writers of the colonial period.

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Mexico heralds Juana Inés de la Cruz as one of the Latin America's most outstanding writers from the colonial period. In 1667, she began her life as a nun in order to have no limits on studying. She wrote and read tirelessly, often challenging societal values. She is pictures on the front of Mexico's 200 peso banknote.

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