Blanca VarelaBlanca Varela won the Octavio Paz Prize for poetry in 2001 and was the first woman to win the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize in 2006. Varela was honored in 2007 with Spain's Queen Sofia Prize for Ibero- American Poetry. Blanca Varel died on March 12, 2009, at her home in Lima. She was 82. ROUGH SONG (THE SONG CAVE, 2020) is the first collection of her work to be published in English. Read More Read Less