María Esther De Miguel
María Esther de Miguel (1 November 1929, Larroque, Entre Ríos, Larroque, Entre Ríos Province – Buenos Aires, 27 July 2003) was an Argentine writer. Biography Miguel was the daughter of a Spanish immigrant and Jewish mother. At the age of eight, she won a literary contest in composition at school, which was the beginning of her writing career. In her adolescence, she began writing novellas at the Congregación de los Paulinos in Buenos Aires. Her studies included philosophy and literature, earning a scholarship to study literature in Italy. When she returned to Argentina, she abandoned her Catholic religious vocation, and worked as a teacher and journalist. Miguel served as director of the literary magazine ''Señales'' and collaborated in the literary supplement of the newspaper ''La Nación''. She served in a leadership role at the Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Miguel was married to the editor Andrés Alfonso Bravo. She died of colorectal cancer in 2003. Selected works ...
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