Adela Zamudio

Adela Zamudio

Adela Zamudio (born October 11, 1854 in Cochabamba ; † June 2, 1928 there ) was a Bolivian teacher, writer, playwright, painter who published her works under the pseudonym Soledad (loneliness).

Adela Zamudio is considered to be one of the most important literary voices in her country over the centuries. Her birthday on November 11th is celebrated in Bolivia today as Bolivian Women's Day.

At the age of 15 she published her first poem Zwei Rosen and signed it with the pseudonym " Soledad ". However, another twenty years passed before her first volume of poetry, Essayos poéticos , was published, which was showered with praise by the critics. She passed her state examination as a teacher in 1890 and was less than five years later director of the " Liceo de Señoritas ", which was later renamed " Liceo Adela Zamudio ".

With a lot of verve she fought against the restrictions in the academic training of Bolivian women as well as for a separation of church and state and for the introduction of civil divisions . She was exposed to attacks from conservative sections of the population and the Catholic Church throughout her life; she was considered an atheist and anarchist.

In her later years, she worked with great financial success in concrete terms for charitable purposes and died at the age of 73 of bronchitis, which she had not received adequate medical care for due to lack of money.

Works

• Essayos poéticos (poetic texts) (1887)
• Violeta o la princesa azul (Violeta or the Blue Princess) (1890)
• El castillo negro (The Black Castle) (1906)
• Intimas (Close Friends) (1913)
• Ráfagas (gusts of wind) (1914)
• Peregrinando (On the Move) (1943)
• Cuentos breves (short novels) (1943)

Web links

• Literature by and about Adela Zamudio in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

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• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (Engl.)
• Zamudio biography by Javier Bustamante