Olga Nolla was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, journalist, and professor.
27 Facts About Olga Nolla
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Olga Nolla was born September 18,1938, in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico to Jose Antonio Bernabe Nolla Cabrera, an agronomist, and Olga Ramirez de Arellano, a poet with several publications.
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Olga Nolla was member of a prominent Puerto Rican family that participated in politics and the arts.
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Olga Nolla is related to author Rosario Ferre and ex-governor of Puerto Rico Don Luis A Ferre, her uncle by marriage.
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Olga Nolla enrolled in Manhattanville College together with her cousin, Rosario Ferre.
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Olga Nolla obtained a Bachelor of Natural Sciences majoring in Biology.
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Olga Nolla was particularly interested in Genetics, even though her true passion was literature.
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Rosario Ferre later writes for the newspaper El Nuevo Dia that Olga Nolla later realized that literature could be just as effective as science to discover the truth, not the truth of the natural world, but the truth of the human heart.
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Olga Nolla writes that for Olga, writing and the discovery of the truth were always intimately involved.
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Olga Nolla dedicated this part of her life to raising her children.
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In 1967 Olga Nolla started her Masters in Literature along with her cousin, writer Rosario Ferre at the University of Puerto Rico.
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Olga Nolla divorced her husband Carlos Conde and started to work as a collaborator in Puerto Rican newspapers, El Nuevo Dia and Prensa Libre.
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Olga Nolla worked for the Government's Consumer Department of Puerto Rico writing scripts to educate consumers.
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Olga Nolla started as a script writer and long distance teacher of the Center for Televised Studies.
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Olga Nolla was responsible for developing scripts for courses on Occidental Civilizations.
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Olga Nolla later taught Spanish, Art History, and Humanities at the Humanities Department of the UMET, where she worked for 20 years.
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Olga Nolla participated in the Federation of Puerto Rican Women and was editor of its magazine Palabra de Mujer from 1976 to 1977.
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Olga Nolla belonged to Junta Editorial of Revista Cupey, UMET's magazine, since its beginnings in 1984.
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Olga Nolla directed the magazine from 1984 to 1997 and contributed to it by publishing essays and literary criticism.
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Olga Nolla participated in many literary courses and was a strong proponent of literature by women, especially in Puerto Rico.
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Olga Nolla was very involved in the fight for women's civil rights in Puerto Rico.
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Olga Nolla was passionate about history, which is evidenced in her predilection for historical novels such as El Castillo de la Memoria and Rosas de Papel.
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In 2001 Olga Nolla went to New York to visit her children.
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Olga Nolla died on July 30,2001, at the age of 63, from a heart attack while she slept.
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Olga Nolla had told her friend that she wanted to die while dreaming.
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The poem, dedicated to Olga Nolla, is part of her book of poems, Fisuras.
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Olga Nolla published many of her works in newspapers and magazines such as El Mundo, El Nuevo Dia, Mairena, Cayey and Claridad.