María Teresa de Vega is a Spanish writer and poet. She has been included within the Generation 21 group of writers.
Biography
María Teresa de Vega was born in
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
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,
Tenerife
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. She is the daughter of writer
Isaac de Vega who was part of the
Fetasiano group
The Fetasiano group were a group of writers from the Canary Islands between the 1950s and the 1970s. It included Rafael Arozarena
Rafael Arozarena (April 4, 1923 – September 30, 2009) was a Spanish poet and novelist, born in Tenerife, Canary Is ...
.
She earned a
licentiate in Romance Philology at the
University of La Laguna
The University of La Laguna (ULL; Spanish: ''Universidad de La Laguna'') is a public research university situated in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is the oldest university in the Canary Islands. The university ...
. A few years at the School of Fine Arts of
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz (), is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and capital of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz has a population of 206,593 (2013) within its admi ...
contributed to her training.
She has been a Spanish Language and Literature teacher at teaching centers in Tenerife and
Madrid
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.
She has published four poetry collections – ''Perdonen que hoy no esté jovial'' (2001), ''Cerca de lo lejano'' (2006), ''Mar cifrado'' (2009), and ''Necesidad de Orfeo'' (2015); two books of short stories – ''Perdidos en las redes'' (2000) and ''Sociedad sapiens'' (2005); and three novels – ''Niebla solar'' (2009), ''Merodeadores de orilla'' (2012), and ''Divisa de las hojas'' (2014).
The prose of María Teresa de la Vega has been characterized by the writer and literature professor Damián H. Estévez as "poetic, essentially lyrical and narrative in the essentials. Because it is so important for the composition of the characters, events that happen to them, the conversations that they hold, like the introspection to which the author invites us through her style." The writer and critic Daniel María said of ''Merodeadores de orilla'': "The novel contains passages that include the essay and the philosophical dissertation, and passages that involve the poetic prose of a surrealizing impulse."
Her work ''Divisa de las hojas'' was selected for the Santa Cruz city reading project. She has participated in the cycle ''Entre palabras''.
Publications
Novels
* ''Niebla solar'' (2009), Editorial Baile del sol,
* ''Merodeadores de orilla'' (2012), Ediciones Aguere-Idea,
* ''Divisa de las hojas'' (2014), Ediciones Aguere-Idea,
* ''El doble oscuro'' (2018), Ediciones Nace,
Short story collections
* ''Perdidos en las redes'' (2000), Editorial Benchomo
* ''Sociedad sapiens'' (2005), Editorial Baile del sol,
Poetry collections
* ''Perdonen que hoy no esté jovial'' (2001), Editorial Benchomo,
* ''Cerca de lo lejano'' (2006), Editorial Benchomo
* ''Mar cifrado'' (2009), Ediciones Idea,
* ''Necesidad de Orfeo'' (2015), Escritura entre las nubes,
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century Spanish poets
21st-century Spanish women writers
People from San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Spanish women novelists
Spanish women poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers from the Canary Islands