278:(1967–71). From then on, she stopped teaching to devote herself to writing, perhaps because of the incompatibility of a very active life in her career and her literary ambitions. Her work grew slowly with long pauses and periods of silence, one between 1953 and 1963 and another between 1969 and 1978. She died in Montevideo in 1994.
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In 1950, she was sent as a delegate of the
Pedagogical Museum of Montevideo to attend the Inter-American Seminar on Primary Education. Later, she was invited by the government of France to collaborate with the organization of the prison system in that country. After her "scandalous" debut with the
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In 1960, Somers was invited by the government of France to move to that country and study the organization and operation of rehabilitation centers and correctional institutions; she received a special invitation from the
Secretariat of the Second Congress of the
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Somers' work is often considered part of the "45 Generation" of
Uruguayan literature. Some books that she read in the library of her father would be decisive in her literary career. Somers acknowledged influence from the life of writers and thinkers like
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Between 1962 and 1971, she was director of the
National Center for Educational Documentation, receiving the UNESCO fellowship for studies on pedagogical documentation in Paris, Dijon, Geneva and Madrid in 1964. She becomes editor of
116:(7 October 1914 – 1 March 1994) was a Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, novelist and short story writer. She was sometimes referred to as Armonía Etchepare de Henestrosa or, by her pseudonym,
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Somers is described ahead of the generation to which she belonged, her artistic direction having more in common with the "Generation of Crisis." Other critics classify her, along with
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for the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders, held in London. The following year, she was invited by the
Academic Exchange Service of the
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during the
Seminar on Education for Development and Social Progress; being appointed director of the Library and Pedagogical Museum in Uruguay.
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