Olga Nolla
| Olga Nolla | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 18, 1938 Río Piedras, Puerto Rico |
| Died | July 30, 2001 (aged 62) New York, NY |
| Occupation | Writer, Poet, Professor, Journalist |
| Parent(s) | José Antonio Bernabé Nolla Cabrera (father) Olga Ramírez de Arellano (mother) |
| Relatives | Rosario Ferré (cousin) |
Olga Nolla (September 18, 1938 – July 30, 2001) (full name Olga Nolla Ramírez de Arellano) was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, journalist, and professor.
Olga Nolla was born September 18, 1938 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico to José Antonio Bernabé Nolla Cabrera, an agronomist, and Olga Ramírez de Arellano, also a poet with several publications. She was member of a prominent Puerto Rican family that participated in politics and the arts. She is related to author Rosario Ferré (cousin) and ex-governor of Puerto Rico Don Luis A. Ferré, her uncle by marriage. Her parents moved to Mayagüez when she was five years old.
Olga Nolla studied in Colegio La Milagrosa in Mayagüez during her formative years. She enrolled in Manhattanville College together with her cousin, Rosario Ferré. She obtained a Bachelor of Natural Sciences majoring in Biology. She was particularly interested in Genetics, even though her true passion was literature.
While in college, her cousin, Ferré, asked her why she was studying biology when she knew what she truly loved was literature. Olga answered that what she loved more than literature or biology was the truth, and the truth could only be discovered through scientific investigation. Rosario Ferré later writes for the newspaper El Nuevo Día that Olga later realized that literature could be just as effective as science to discover the truth, not the truth of the natural world, but the truth of the human heart. She also writes that for Olga, writing and the discovery of the truth were always intimately involved.
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