Translations:Amira De la Rosa/6/en

De la Rosa wrote numerous radio plays that were presented by the Spanish National Radio in Madrid and Emisora Atlántico in Barranquilla. One of the most lauded was Laúd de notas de agua, which debuted in 1950 on Emisora Atlántico. In December 1943, given the success of the premiere of Madre borrada, she founded an eponymous theater group with professional and amateur actors. The group, which disbanded in 1945, was based at the Murillo Theater in Barranquilla and toured other cities on the Colombian coast, such as Cartagena and Santa Marta. In an interview with Alfredo de la Espriella published in Marsolaire, Amira said that it was through theater that she found a means of expression and discovered a taste for communicating feelings and emotions. She began by writing short plays that were performed by the students at her school, but it was in Spain that this experience matured and she began to write for more demanding audiences.She was a member of Spain’s Society of Authors and an honorary member of Colombia’s Society of Authors and the Institute of Hispanic Culture. The canon of her work, especially following the publication Marsolaire and the theme of violence against women it addressed, has been compared to those other authors celebrated for their social conscience, such as José Félix Fuenmayor and even Manuel Zapata Olivella.