Claim: Magali Herrera, who was born in Rivera, Uruguay, which shares a border with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, was a precocious writer of poems and stories who enjoyed organizing poetry evenings.
Evidence: 1914
Rivera, Uruguay The border with Brazil joins it with the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, which is only a street away from it, at the north end of Route 5. She was a precocious writer of poems and stories, which were never published, and also wrote for several daily papers, working as a journalist. 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.