María Ugarte

María Ugarte
Born(1914-02-22)February 22, 1914
Segovia, Spain
DiedMarch 4, 2011(2011-03-04) (aged 97)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Resting placeCristo Redentor cemetery
CitizenshipSpanish (1914–2011)
Dominican (1950–2011)
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid
Notable awards Order of Civil Merit (1986)

Patrimonio Cultural Viviente de la República Dominicana (1995)
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (2002)

Premio Nacional de Literatura (2006)
Spouses
(m. 1935; div. 1945)
    José A. Jiménez
    (m. 1950; died 1966)
    ChildrenCarmenchu Brusíloff

    María de la Purificación Ugarte España (22 February 1914, Segovia, Spain  4 March 2011, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) was a Spanish-Dominican journalist, writer, academician, historian and palaeographer. Ugarte was the first woman who worked as a journalist in the Dominican Republic, and also the first woman to become a member of the Dominican Academy of History.