100 years of Maruja Vieira: An approach to the journalistic work ofa poet

100 años de Maruja Vieira: acercamiento a la obra periodística de una poeta

The poet Maruja Vieira was born in Manizales on December 25, 1922. She is the author of at least 20 books of poetry, including several anthologies of her work. Her poetic work is part of the Library of Colombian Women Writers, published in 2022 by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, which also recognized in 2012 the value of her poetry with the award “Vida y Obra” (Life and Work). Her recognition as a poet contrasts with the low visibility of her journalistic work, which was abundant and rich in literary references but has not been compiled or studied. The work presented below is a first descriptive approach to a small part of the corpus that comprises Maruja Vieira´s work in the press, mainly her “Columna de humo” (Smoke Column), published since 1955 in the newspaper El Espectador. This work rests in an digital format archive donated by the writer to the room of Caldas´ authors of the Library of the University of Caldas, located in the Rogelio Salmona Cultural Center, in Manizales.