{"id":9583,"date":"2021-09-06T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T08:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/personaje\/camprubi-aymar-zenobia\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T08:44:55","slug":"camprubi-aymar-zenobia","status":"publish","type":"personaje","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/personaje\/camprubi-aymar-zenobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Camprub\u00ed Aymar, Zenobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish writer and translator, wife of the poet and Nobel Prize winner\u00a0Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez<\/a> whom she met at the Residencia de Estudiantes (Students\u2019 Residence) in 1913 and married in 1916. Also at the Residencia she met Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, with whom the couple took a trip to Granada in the summer of 1924 which, decades later, already in exile, was transformed into the book Forgetfulness of Granada<\/em>.<\/p>\n

His family was well off. His grandfather was an American merchant and his grandmother belonged to a family of Corsicans settled in Puerto Rico. His father was Catalan, a civil engineer, who met his mother in Puerto Rico during a stay there for work reasons.<\/p>\n

In 1924, she accompanied her husband, Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez, to Granada. The poet, who went ahead of his wife, made the trip on the night train with Federico and Francisco Garc\u00eda Lorca, who were coming from the Residencia de Estudiantes to spend their vacation in Granada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a writer she made her debut with a short story that appeared in a New York magazine in 1901. She also wrote a biographical attempt, Malgrat<\/em>. In the early 1920s, the family underwent several moves and relocations. During the stay in Valencia, where he had to take charge of the family home, he published several literary works and won a prize. These were not, however, good times. In that same period her parents separated and she went to live in the United States where she enrolled at Columbia University. She returned to Spain with her father in 1909 and they settled in La R\u00e1bida, in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, where she taught children.<\/p>\n

\"Zenobia<\/a>
Zenobia Camprub\u00ed, dressed in dark clothes, sitting next to Isabel, Federico and Concha Garc\u00eda Lorca in El Partal. \/ Photo: FGL Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1913, he meets Juan Ram\u00f3n in a conference by Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda de Coss\u00edo<\/strong> organized by the Council for the Extension of Studies and Scientific Research. In 1914, they begin to collaborate on various projects. In 1916, he accompanies his mother to New York. Juan Ram\u00f3n, disconcerted, follows in her wake. They married on February 12.<\/p>\n

During the years of their life together, Zenobia continues to translate and publish her own texts and collaborates with Juan Ram\u00f3n in the Spanish version of Rabindranath Tagore’s work.<\/strong> In Madrid, in 1918, she founds the association The Home Nurse together with other volunteers like Mar\u00eda de Maeztu or Rafaela Ortega y Gasset. She also founded the Committee for the granting of scholarships to Spanish women abroad. In 1924, she accompanied her husband to Granada. The poet, who went ahead of his wife, made the trip on the night train with Federico and Francisco Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/a>, who were coming from the Residencia de Estudiantes to spend their vacation in Granada. The friendship was shaky and went through several crises almost from the beginning.<\/p>\n

In 1926, Zenobia was appointed secretary of the Spanish Female Lyceum Club. During the Civil War she maintains her social commitment to the underprivileged by taking in war orphans.<\/strong> However, in view of the worsening political circumstances, the couple leaves Spain and begins an exile that was definitive. They traveled through Cuba, the United States, Buenos Aires and Puerto Rico. In view of Juan Ram\u00f3n’s incapacity, Zenobia supported the family moneywise with translation work, articles, publications and conferences. In Puerto Rico she had a contract as a professor at the University. These were difficult years, during which Zenobia continued to attend to her work and to collaborate tirelessly with Juan Ram\u00f3n. In 1951, she was operated on for cancer in Boston, a disease that was to reappear years later. She died in Puerto Rico on October 28, 1956, three days after Juan Ram\u00f3n received the Nobel Prize.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spanish writer and translator, wife of the poet and Nobel Prize winner\u00a0Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez whom she met at the Residencia de Estudiantes (Students\u2019 Residence) in 1913 and married in 1916. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9584,"template":"","agrupacion":[126,128],"class_list":["post-9583","personaje","type-personaje","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","agrupacion-friends","agrupacion-writers-and-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personaje\/9583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personaje"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/personaje"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"agrupacion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/agrupacion?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}