Carmen Conde

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Carmen Conde Abellán (born August 15, 1907 , † January 8, 1996 ) was a Spanish poet , writer and teacher . In 1931, together with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás , she founded the first People's University of Cartagena . She was the first woman to become an academic numerator at the Real Academia Española , where she gave her introductory speech in 1979.

Life

At the age of seven, she moved with her family to Melilla , where she lived until 1920. The memories from this time were collected in Empezando la vida . In 1923 she passed the competition exam for assistants in the drawing workshop of the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval , where she began to work. A year later she wrote articles for local newspapers. At the age of 19, she began studying education at the Escuela Normal de Maestras de Murcia College.

In 1927 she met the Spanish poet Antonio Oliver Belmás and began a relationship with him. She wrote articles in Ley: (entregas de capricho) and in 1928 also in Obra en marcha: diario poético , both magazines published by Juan Ramón Jiménez for a minority audience. In 1929 she wrote her fourth work, Brocal , and in 1930 she graduated from the Escuela Normal de Albacete with a degree in pedagogy. On December 5, 1931, she married Belmás and both founded the first People's University of Cartagena . In 1933 they published the magazine Presencia within this institution .

The university had a library for adults, a children's library and an educational cinema, and Conde also organized events such as conference programs, art exhibitions, etc. It was supported by the Patronato (sponsor) de Misiones Pedagógicas. In addition, she also worked as a teacher at the Escuela Nacional (National School) de Párvulos in El Retén.

In 1934 she published Júbilos that of Gabriela Mistral a prologue and Norah Borges was illustrated. She worked as an inspector and director of studies at the El Pardo orphanage until she resigned in 1935. This year the couple wrote articles for national newspapers such as El Sol as well as for Spanish-American series publications.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, her husband joined the forces of the Second Spanish Republic and ran Popular Front No. 2 radio station. Conde followed him through several Andalusian cities, but she returned to Cartagena to take care of her mother. The outbreak of the Civil War forced in July 1936, (at the time the invitation of Gabriela Mistral Consul of Chile in Lisbon ) refuse, before moving to France and Belgium traveled to these countries, for which she is a scholarship had received Folklore - institutions to to study. She also attended courses at the letter faculty in Valencia and passed the competitive exam to become a librarian , although she never practiced.

In 1937, Conde began an intimate relationship with Amanda Junquera Butler , whom she had met the previous year. Due to the legal and social conditions at the time, Conde neither publicly acknowledged her same-sex relationship, nor did she get a divorce. Classified as a threat by the authorities for being a pro-Republican intellectual, Conde fled to Madrid at the end of the war with Junquera and went into hiding. Her husband was exiled to live in isolation in Murcia , but Conde continued to live with Junquera and her husband, Cayetano Alcázar Molina, in Madrid and San Lorenzo de El Escorial until 1945 . She managed to communicate with her husband through José Ballester Nicolás, director of La Verdad (a regional newspaper in Murcia) and employee of Correos. In 1945 Belmás was allowed to move to Madrid, and Conde moved in with him, although their relationship only existed in name.

Her husband died in 1968 and Conde moved permanently to Junquero's Madrid home. Three years later, Carmen encouraged the complete compilation of his works. On January 28, 1979 she was elected numerical member of the Real Academia Española , took the "K" seat and gave her introductory speech entitled "Poesía ante el tiempo y la inmortalidad" (Poetry before time and immortality). Best known as a poet and inspiration to a younger generation of writers, she also published eight novels.

She spent the last years of her life, between 1992 and 1996, in a senior citizens' residence in Majadahonda , Madrid. In 1992 she wrote her will and left the full collection of literary works by her and her husband to the City Hall of Cartagena, her hometown. Conde honored her relationship with Junquero in her autobiography and dedicated many works to her partner and muse during her lifetime. In 2007, José Luis Ferris published Carmen Conde: vida, pasión y verso de una escritora olvidada (Carmen Conde: Life, Passion and Verse of a Forgotten Writer), in which the relationship between Conde and Junquera was publicly documented.

Honors

  • On August 15, 2018, Google celebrated their 111th birthday with a Google Doodle .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ángel L. Prieto de Paula: Carmen Conde, la primera mujer (es) . In: El País , Prisa, August 11, 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2018. 
  2. ^ A b c K. M. Sibbald: Outing and Autobiography (Carmen Conde and María Elena Walsh) . In: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos . September.
  3. ^ A b c Jean Andrews: The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016 . Ed .: Manuel Bragança, Peter Tame. Berghahn Books, New York, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-154-9 , Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil-War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Pilar de Valderrama, pp. 40-59 ( [1] ).
  4. ^ Neri-Carmen Sánchez Gil: Carmen Conde, la poetisa del siglo XX español . In: Tonos Digital . November 2002, ISSN  1577-6921 .
  5. ↑ Carmen Conde, la primera mujer . In: El País , August 2007. Archived from the original on May 2020. Retrieved June 2020. 
  6. ↑ Carmen Conde, la fuerza de la voluntad . In: Crónica Global , June 2, 2019. Archived from the original on June 2020. Retrieved June 2020. 
  7. ↑ Lisa Nalbone: The Novels of Carmen Conde: An Expression of Feminine Subjectivity . Ed .: Juan de la Cuesta (=  Hispanic Monographs ). 2012, ISBN 978-1-58871-212-7 , S2CID: 143391237, pp. 264 , doi : 10.1080 / 00497878.2013.772856 .
  8. ↑ Ferris revela la historia de amor entre Carmen Conde y Amanda . In: Diario Información , June 19, 2007. Archived from the original on June 5, 2020. Retrieved June 2020. 
  9. ↑ El Diván de la puerta dorada . In: ABC , July 1984, p. XI. Accessed October 2018. 
  10. ↑ Carmen Conde's 111th Birthday . 15th August 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Conde, Carmen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conde Abellán, Carmen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish poet, writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1907
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1996