``Without Ana Rosa, the Cuban collection of the University of Miami Library would not be what it is: the best Cuban library outside Cuba,'' said Esperanza Bravo de Varona, the collection's coordinator. ``Not only the exile community but also the Cuba of the future owe her a debt of gratitude for her tenacious and fruitful labor.''
That was written in the obituary for Nunez, in the El Nuevo Herald, August 5, 1999.
The obituary added: "Nunez, born in Havana on July 11, 1926, graduated from the School of Philosophy and Humanities and the School of Library Sciences at the University of Havana. She left Cuba in 1965.
Her work, which began in Cuba with A Day in Verse 59 and Gabriela Mistral: A Hurtful Love, continued in Miami. Her copious bibliography includes The Seven Moons of January, Praise to the Royal Palm, A Trip to Cazabe, Caribbean Scales, The Twelfth Hour and Chrysanthemums.
Nunez worked as a reference librarian and bibliographer at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library. Together with Rosa Abella, she was a pioneer in the collection of Cuban documentation."
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