Dolores de la Torriente Brau

Critic, journalist, professor, lecturer and writer of intense intellectual and political life. Author of various essays on Hispanic American and Cuban literature. Frequent contributor to the magazines Bohemia, Carteles, El País and Prensa Libre for many years. Her articles have appeared in prestigious national and foreign magazines. She had the capacity to dedicate herself body and soul to everything that excited her. Sister of Pablo de la Torriente Brau

From age 18 she carried out journalistic work and emerged as a restless political fighter.

She began writing in a newspaper from the Instituto de la Habana, called Instituto. During that time she met Mella and Rubén Martínez Villena. Despite being very young, she distinguished herself as secretary of the propaganda commission and stood out for her speech at the first Congress of Cuban Women held in Cuba.

She was already known as Loló de la Torriente and throughout her fruitful life would also be a lawyer, teacher, editorialist, critic, essayist and writer.

At the second Congress of Cuban Women she delivered a dissertation on the need to grant women access to the performance of public positions in government and administration of the moral and material interests of her sex, positioning herself among the first Cuban personalities who were concerned with changing the perception of the female universe in her time and throughout national history.

She lived 14 years in Mexico, delving there into professional journalism.

She was always in favor of those at the bottom. Her attitude in defense of female workers and students, imprisoned by Gerardo Machado on the then Isle of Pines, stood out among many other lawyers, and would be one of her best works in the legal sciences.

Perhaps the most vast line and the one that has best endured is that of essayist. Her most well-known works are:
La Habana de Cecilia Valdés.
Tiempo Hermoso.
Imagen en dos tiempos.
Testimonio desde dentro.

Her first work in the genre, La Habana de Cecilia Valdés, represented a starting point for studies that would include the best of Cuban intellectuality, fundamentally the contemporary.

Collaborations
She worked at Novedades, in Mexico. After the triumph of the Revolution she worked at El Mundo, Carteles, El País, Prensa Libre and at Bohemia, where she took charge of the section Esta es la historia, under the pseudonym María Luz de Nora. She also collaborated in El Nacional, in Mexico, in Cuadernos Americanos and in Cuento. Upon her death she left a collection of papers that extended to 660 folios, which the scholar Virgilio López Lemus has set out to publish.