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Spanish Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Spain or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Mercedes Abad (born 1961), journalist, short story writer * Rosario de Acuña (1850–1923), playwright, essayist, short story writer and poet * Anna Aguilar-Amat (born 1962), Catalan-language poet, translator * Francisca Aguirre (1930–2019), poet *Aisha (died 1010), acclaimed Arabic-language poet *Caterina Albert (1869–1966), short story writer, novelist and poet * Núria Albó (born 1930), novelist, politician *Aurora de Albornoz (1926–1990), poet * Josefina Aldecoa (1926–2011), novelist *Aurora de Albornoz (born 1947), Galician-language poet, translator, biologist * Concepción Aleixandre (1862–1952), gynaecologist, feminist, non-fiction writer * Marilar Aleixandre (born 1947), writer, translator and biologist * Jesusa Alfau Galván de Solalinde (1895–1943), novelist *Florina Alías (1921–1999), Asturian-language author * Maria Dolors Alibés (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Begoña Ameztoy
Begoña Ameztoy (born 1951) is a Spanish writer and painter. She started as a writer, but her interest in arts made her combine literature with cultural movements in Euskadi. She has worked as a columnist in ''El Diario Vasco ''El Diario Vasco'' (English: ''The Basque Daily'') is a Spanish morning daily newspaper based in San Sebastián, Basque Country. History and profile ''El Diario Vasco'' was founded in 1934 by the Sociedad Vascongada de Publicaciones, led by co ...'' of Donostia since 1992. She has written scripts for TVE programs, and she has worked as a script editor for several TV programs including '' Crónicas marcianas''. Bibliography *El Círculo (1991) *El Asesino de Baltimore (1994) *El Derby Vasco -with Juanjo Valero- (1996) *El Ángel (2000) *Escuela de Mujeres (2001) *Cuarentonas (2002) *Amor Caliente, Sexo Frío (2007) *El Sueño de Orión (2010) Expositions * 2001 - ''Luz Azul'' * 2005 - ''Cielos y Tierras''. Galería Espacio Arte - San Sebast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Astelarra
Judith Astelarra Bonomi (born 1943) is an Argentine sociologist based in Spain where she has specialized in gender studies. In Chile, she contributed to work on agricultural reform in collaboration with the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences. In 1977, she was appointed Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona where from 1992, as founder and coordinator of the Seminario de Estudios de la Mujer (Centre for Women Studies), she introduced gender studies in Spain. She later served at the university as Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. Since the late 1970s, she has published widely on gender studies and feminism. Early life and education Born in Buenos Aires in 1943, Astelarra, the oldest of nine children, was raised in an upper-class home. When she was nine, she moved with her family to Chile where she attended the Colegio Dunalastair in Santiago. On the advice of her father, she went on to study sociology at the Pontifical Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilde Asensi
Matilde Asensi Carratalá (born 1962) is a Spanish journalist and writer, specialised mainly in historical novels. Biography Asensi was born at Alicante. She studied journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and she later worked for three years in the service of news of Radio Alicante-SER and Radio Nacional de España Radio Nacional de España (acronym RNE, branded rne, "National Radio of Spain") is the national state-owned public service radio broadcaster in Spain. RNE is the radio division and Televisión Española (TVE) is the television division of R ... (RNE, ''Spanish National Radio'') as the person in charge of local and provincial news. She was also correspondent for Agencia EFE and provincial contributor in the newspapers ''La Verdad'' and ''Información''. Works "Martín Ojo de Plata" trilogy: # 2007: ''Tierra firme'' # 2010: ''Venganza en Sevilla'' # 2012: ''La conjura de Cortés'' # 2013: ''Martin ojo de plata'' (compilation) Cato series: # 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia De Asensi
Julia de Asensi (4 May 1859 – 7 November 1921) was a Spanish journalist, translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transl ... and writer. Selected works Stories for adults *''The winter evergreen and other narratives''. Barcelona: Vincent F. Perelló. *''Love and cassock''. Madrid: Alonso Gullón, 1878. *''Three girlfriends''. Madrid: Universal Library, 1880. *''Legends and traditions in prose and verse''. Madrid: Universal Library, 1883. *''Novellas''. Madrid: Universal Library, 1889. *''Man to Man''. Madrid: A. Alonso, 1892. Short stories for children *''Arabal Santiago. Story of a poor child''. Madrid: Sons of MG Hernández, 1894. *''Auras fall. Stories for children''. Barcelona: Antonio J. Bastinos, 1897. *''Spring breezes. Stories for children''. Barcelona: Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Maria Arquimbau
Rosa Maria Arquimbau i Cardil (pen name, Rosa de Sant Jordi; 27th March,1909 – 28th February, 1992) was a Catalan writer, journalist, feminist, and suffragist. Together with Maria Teresa Vernet i Real, Carme Montoriol i Puig, Anna Murià, Elvira Augusta Lewi, Aurora Bertrana, and Mercè Rodoreda, Arquimbau was considered a model of the "femme de lettres" and one of the six major female Catalan novelists of the 1930s. Her novels and plays, which depicted modern life subjects, earned "critical and popular success". While they were characterized as vivid and sometimes poignant, they were also criticized as trivial and frivolous. Biography Born in Barcelona, Arquimbau was a relevant Catalan female activist, journalist and writer whose genres included short stories, novels, dramas, comedies, essays, and poetry. Her short stories were first published when she was a teenager. The humor in her comedies is described as ironic and situational. During the period of 1924-36, she wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Arnedo
Elena Arnedo Soriano (25 November 1941 – 7 September 2015) was a Spanish gynecologist, writer, and women's rights activist. Biography The daughter of feminist writer Elena Soriano, Arnedo was born in Madrid. Arnedo was the cousin of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. She married economist Miguel Boyer in 1964. With him, she had two children, Laura and Miguel. She subsequently studied gynecology and breast pathology at University of Strasbourg. She divorced Boyer in 1985 and remarried academic Fernando Terán Troyano. A pioneer in reproductive rights, she wrote several books, including ''Testamento materno'', which dealt with the ravages of drugs in connection with the death of a son. She was a critic of a drug industry that reaps great benefits selling an illusion of eternal youth. She also edited the Spanish version of the reference book ''El gran libro de la mujer'' (The Big Book of Women), about various things related to women. In 2003, she was elected a city councillor for Madrid on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xela Arias
Xela Arias Castaño (1962 in Lugo – 2003 in Vigo) was a Spanish Galician-language poet and translator. She translated works by Jorge Amado, Camilo Castelo Branco, James Joyce, Fenimore Cooper and Wenceslao Fernández Flórez Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (1885 in A Coruña, Galicia – 1964 in Madrid) was a popular Galician journalist and novelist of the early 20th century. Throughout his career, he retained an intense fondness for the land of his birth. Early l ... into Galician. Works *''Denuncia do equilibrio'', 1986 *''Tigres coma cabalos'', 1990 *''Darío a diario'', 1996 *''Intempériome'', 2003 External linksRevista de la UCM 1962 births 2003 deaths 20th-century Spanish poets 21st-century Spanish poets Galician poets Galician translators Translators from Spanish Translators from English Translators to Galician Galician-language writers 20th-century translators 21st-century translators Spanish women poets 20th-century Spanish women writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concepción Arenal
Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, she excelled in literature and was the first woman to attend university in Spain. She was also a pioneer and founder of the feminist movement in Spain. Life Her father, Ángel del Arenal y de la Cuesta, was a liberal military officer who was often imprisoned for his ideology and opposition to the regime of Ferdinand VII. He fell ill in prison and died in 1829, when Concepción was aged 9. She moved to Armaño (Cantabria) with her mother, María Concepción Ponte Mandiá Tenreiro, and then to Madrid in 1834, to attend the school of the Count of Tepa. Against her mother's wishes in 1841 she went to Law School at the Central University (now the Complutense University of Madrid), becoming the first woman in Spain to attend University, where sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clementina Arderiu
Clementina Arderiu (1889 in Barcelona – 1976) was a Spanish poet who wrote in the Catalan language. Influences on her work included the Catalan language writer Josep Carner, and her husband, the poet Carles Riba. Her poems tend to idealize daily life. Works *''Cançons i elegies'', 1916 *''L'alta llibertat'', 1920 *''Poemes'', 1936 *''Sempre i ara'', 1946, Joaquim Folguera Joaquim is the Portuguese and Catalan version of Joachim and may refer to: * Alberto Joaquim Chipande, politician * Eduardo Joaquim Mulémbwè, politician * Joaquim Agostinho (1943–1984), Portuguese professional bicycle racer * Joaquim Amat- ... prize *''Poesies completes'', 1952 *''És a dir'', 1968, Óssa Menor prize and Lletra d'Or prize *''L’esperança encara'', 1968 Recording from the Library of Congress : Clementina Arderíu reading twelve poems from her collected volumes, Poesia completas,195 References * 1889 births 1976 deaths Catalan-language poets 20th-century Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enriqueta Antolín
Enriqueta Antolín Gimeno (1941 – 26 November 2013) was a Spanish journalist and writer, best known for her novels. Biography The descendant of a family deeply rooted in Palencia, Enriqueta Antolín moved to Toledo at age 6, where she lived a good part of her life. There she studied teaching, although later her vocation for journalism and literature prevailed. Beginning in 1986 she contributed to the newspaper '' El País'', and despite writing from her childhood, it was not until 1992 when she published her first novel, ''La gata con alas'', which received the Tigre Juan Award The Tigre Juan Award ( es, Premio Tigre Juan, links=no) is a Spanish literary award created in 1977 in honor of the novel ''Tigre Juan. El curandero de su honra'' by Ramón Pérez de Ayala. It is awarded to the best narrative work in Spanish publis ... for the year's best novel in Spanish. ''La gata con alas'' is a story of love and heartbreak set in postwar Spain that started a trilogy completed with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Núria Añó
Núria Añó (, ; born 1973) is a Catalan writer and a translator. Añó has exhibited her work in universities and institutions giving papers on literary creation or authors like Elfriede Jelinek, Patricia Highsmith, Salka Viertel, Franz Werfel, Karen Blixen or Alexandre Dumas, fils, as well as giving talks in libraries and secondary and higher education centres. She is also a member of several international artistic juries. Work Añó was born in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. She started writing tales at a young age and published her first story in 1990. After that, she published in anthology books from abroad, such as the short stories ''2066. Beginning the age of correction'', about climate change, or ''Presage'', about domestic violence, both translated into English. Her first novel ''Els nens de l'Elisa'' (2006) was third among the finalists for the 24th Ramon Llull Prize for Catalan literature, one of the most relevant literary awards in Catalan language. This novel h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |