Ana María Matute

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Ana María Matute (born July 26, 1925 in Barcelona ; † June 25, 2014 there ) was a Spanish writer .

Life

Ana María Matute was the second of five children in a middle-class Catalan family. Her mother spoke Spanish (Castilian), her father - an umbrella manufacturer by trade - Catalan . She grew up in the Spanish Civil War . Her experiences from this time can be found in the sad topics of her books. She "challenged the Francoist authorities in the fifties and sixties with unsparing portrayals of an unfree, backward country".

honors and awards

Published in German translation

Novels and short stories

  • Strange Children (Los niños tontos), stories, translated by Gerda Theile-Bruns. Verlag der Arche, Zurich 1961, 54 pages. ( The little books of the Ark 340/341).
  • Die Krämer (Los mercaderes), sequence of novels, transferred by Doris Deinhard . Stuttgart: German publishing company.
    • First memory (Primera memoria). 1965, 249 pages.
    • At night the soldiers cry (Los soldados lloran de noche). 1965, 223 pages.
    • Lose time (La trampa). 1971, 240 pages, ISBN 3-421-01584-8 . (GDR licensed edition under the title The Trap. )
  • The rescue (El salvamento), short stories, translated by Hans Leopold Davi . Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, 75 pages, ISBN 3-15-009868-8 . ( Universal Library 9868.)
  • Olvidado rey Gudú, novel, translated by Willi Zurbrüggen . Munich and Zurich: Piper Verlag, 2003.
  • Uninhabited paradise (Paraíso inhabitado). Roman, translated by Sabine Giersberg. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, 348 pages, ISBN 978-3-455-40280-3 .

Children's books

  • Juju and the Distant Islands (El polizón del Ulises), transferred by Juliane Piron. Paulus-Verlag, Recklinghausen 1968, 94 pages.
  • Yungo. A boy seeks his voice and finds the beautiful land (El saltamontes verde), transmitted by Juliane Piron. Bitter, Recklinghausen 1970, 62 pages, ISBN 3-7903-0128-0 .
  • The children in the land of numbers (El país de la pizarra), transmitted by Juliane Piron. Bitter, Recklinghausen 1971, 60 pages, ISBN 3-7903-0015-2 .
  • Paulina, transferred by Roswitha Marti. Klopp, Berlin 1972, 135 pages, ISBN 3-7817-1330-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El País: La escritora Ana María Matute muere a los 88 años , from June 25, 2014
  2. ↑ Paul Ingendaay: Uninhabited Paradise. The writer Ana María Matute has died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 28, 2014, p. 12.
  3. ^ Premio "Miguel de Cervantes"

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personal data
SURNAME Matute, Ana María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2014
Place of death Barcelona