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Emilia Puceiro de Zuleta, Influential Argentine Scholar, Dies at 100

Her passing comes days after a tribute at the Academia Argentina de Letras.

Overview

  • She died Saturday in Buenos Aires at the age of 100, according to reports from La Nación and Los Andes.
  • According to local notices, a farewell is scheduled Sunday at 12:00 at Cementerio Parque Los Cipreses in Béccar.
  • She held long-standing roles at the Academia Argentina de Letras, serving as académica correspondiente from 1981 to 2001 and as académica de número until 2019 in the Calixto Oyuela chair.
  • She was a corresponding member of Spain’s Real Academia Española and co-founded the Grupo de Estudios de la Crítica.
  • Colleagues including Jaime Correas and AAL president Rafael Oteriño remembered her as erudite, passionate, and a teacher who championed the pleasure of reading.