María Esther de Miguel (1 November 1929, Larroque,

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– 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 ''

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''. 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

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in 2003.

Selected works

* 1961 "''La hora undécima''" (novela) * 1965 "''Los que comimos a Solís''" (short stories) * 1970 "''Calamares en su tinta''" (novela) * 1972 "''En el otro tablero''" (short stories) * 1973 "''Pueblamérica''" (novela) - republished in 1998 with the title "''Violentos jardines de América''" * 1980 "''Espejos y daguerrotipos''" (novela) * 1983 "''Jaque a Paysandú''" (novela) * 1986 "''Dos para arriba, uno para abajo''" (short stories) * 1991 "''Norah Lange''" (biography) * 1993 "''La amante del restaurador''" (novela) * 1995 "''Las batallas secretas de Belgrano''" (novela) * 1996 "''El general, el pintor y la dama''" (novela) * 1997 "''En el otro lado del tablero ''" (short stories) * 1999 "''Un dandy en la corte del rey Alfonso''" (novela) * 2001 "''El palacio de los patos''" (novela)

Awards

* Premio Emecé (for ''La hora undécima'') * Premio del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (for ''Los que comimos a Solís'') * Segundo Premio Municipal (for ''Los que comimos a Solís'') * Premio Municipal (for ''Espejos y daguerrotipos'') * Premio Planeta (for ''El general, el pintor y la dama'') * Premio Nacional de Literatura * Palma de Plata of the Pen Club *

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* Premio Dupuytrén

References

Bibliography

* Clarmi Bueno Zandona: ''Una mirada sobre la obra de María Esther de Miguel''. Universidad de les Illes Balears, Palma 2000. * Malva E. Filer: ''Las nuevas „traduciones“ de María Esther de Miguel''. In: ''Alba de América'', Bd. 3 (1985); Nr. 4/5, pages 98–104. * Eduardo Romano (Hrsg.): ''

Héctor Tizón Héctor Tizón (21 October 1929 – 30 July 2012) was an Argentine writer and diplomat. He lived and worked from the ancestral home of his parents in Yala, a small rural town some north of San Salvador de Jujuy. Tizón served as the cultural ...

. Germán Rozenmacher, Abelardo Castillo, María Esther de Miguel''. Kapellusz, Buenos Aires 1987, (''Narradores argentinos''; 2). {{DEFAULTSORT:Miguel, Maria Esther de 1929 births 2003 deaths Argentine people of Spanish descent Argentine women novelists Deaths from colorectal cancer Argentine Jews People from Entre Ríos Province