Alonso Zamora Vicente
Alonso Zamora Vicente (born February 1, 1916 in Madrid ; † March 14, 2006 ibid) was a Spanish writer, Romanist and Hispanist .
life and work
Zamora Vicente studied in Madrid with Tomás Navarro Tomás , Ramón Menéndez Pidal and Américo Castro . He received his doctorate in Romance Philology in 1942 with the work El Habla de Mérida y sus cercanías (Madrid 1943). Then he taught from 1943 to 1946 at the University of Santiago de Compostela , from 1946 to 1948 at the University of Salamanca . From 1948 to 1952 he was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires , from 1953 to 1961 at the Colegio de México , from 1961 to 1968 at the University of Puerto Rico , and finally from 1968 to 1985 at the Complutense University of Madrid .
In 1966, Zamora Vicente was elected to the Real Academia Española and was its permanent secretary from 1971 to 1989. Zamora Vicente received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Salamanca (1989), Extremadura in Cáceres (1990), Coimbra (1992), Santiago de Compostela (1994) and Alicante (2002).
In 1980, Zamora Vicente received the National Prize for his narrative work. Zamora Vicente was awarded the Order of Alfonso X the Wise (Grand Cross, 2000). He bequeathed his extensive library to the Fundación Biblioteca Zamora Vicente in Cáceres .
Alonso Zamora Vicente was married to the Romanist María Josefa Canellada . He was friends with Camilo José Cela and Dámaso Alonso .
Works (without writing or editing activities)
- Las "Sonatas" de Valle Inclán. Contribución al estudio de la prosa modernista, Buenos Aires 1951, Madrid 1966
- Presencia de los clásicos, Buenos Aires 1951
- Léxico rural asturiano. Palabras y cosas de Libardón (Colunga), Granada / Madrid 1953, Oviedo 1997
- Dialectología española, Madrid 1960, 1967, 1989
- Lope de Vega. Su vida y su obra, Madrid 1961, 1969, 1985
- Camilo José Cela (acercamiento a un escritor), Madrid 1962
- Lengua, literatura, intimidad entre Lope de Vega y Azorín, Madrid 1966
- La realidad esperpéntica. Aproximación a "Luces de bohemia", Madrid 1969, 1983
- Valle Inclán. Novelista por entregas, Madrid 1973
- Diccionario moderno del español usual, Madrid 1975
- Suplemento literario, Madrid 1984
- Estudios de dialectología hispánica, Santiago de Compostela 1986
- Exam de ingreso. Madrid. Años veinte, Madrid 1991
- La otra esquina de la lengua, Madrid 1995
- Narraciones, ed. by Jesús Sánchez Lobato, Madrid 1998
- La Real academia española, Madrid 1999
- Recuerdos filológicos y literarios, ed. by Mario Pedrazuela Fuentes, Cáceres 2010
Fiction
- A balcony a la plaza. Easy Readers Series, Spanish. Klett, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3125619602
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Sin levantar cabeza. New edition Espasa Libros, Barcelona 2006
- Excerpt: La Ramitas - Miss Ramitas. Translated by Erna Brandenberger, in: Fueron testigos. Cuentos modernos - You were a witness. Modern Spanish stories. dtv bilingual. New edition dtv , Munich 13th edition 2014 ISBN 342309303X , pp. 226–245
literature
- Homenaje a Alonso Zamora Vicente, 5 vols., Madrid 1988-1996
- Homenaje a Alonso Zamora Vicente, Madrid 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Alonso Zamora Vicente in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.biblio-zamoravicente.es/azv/alonso.htm (with a complete list of publications and rich illustrations)
- http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/bib_autor/zvicente/index.htm (with pictures)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zamora Vicente, Alonso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish writer, Romanist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 2006 |
| Place of death | Madrid |