Claim: Magali Herrera, who was born in a notable family in Rivera, Uruguay, was avidly fond of famous and well-known poems and stories who enjoyed organizing poetry evenings.
Evidence: Magali Herrera was born in 1914 in Rivera, Uruguay to a notable local family. She enjoyed organizing poetry evenings and befriended well known Uruguayan poetess Juana de Ibarbourou She began painting intermittently in the early 1950s but it wasn't until 1965, after a period of severe depression, that she began to paint regularly.