Concha Espina

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Concha Espina (c. 1912).

María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Espina , known as Concha Espina (y Tagle) , (born May 14 or April 15, 1869 or 1877 or April 15, 1879 in Santander , † May 19, 1955 in Madrid ) was a Spanish writer.

Life

Concha Espina published her first poems in the journal El Atlántico under the anagram Ana Coe Snichp . In 1892 she married Ramón de la Serna y Cueto , with whom she had five children, and went to Chile with him. In 1898 she returned to Spain, where her study Mujeres del Quijote appeared in 1903 . In 1909 she moved to Madrid and published her first novel La niña de Luzmela . Her play El jayón (1918) was the model for Francisco Mignone's opera L'innocente .

In the early 1920s, Concha Espina visited Berlin, and in 1924 she received a prize from the Real Academia Española (RAE) and was awarded the Orden de Damas Nobles de María Luisa . In 1928 she became a candidate for the RAE and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. In 1938 she became an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In the next few years she went blind. In 1955 she was awarded the Medalla del Trabajo .

Works

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  • Mis flores , poems (1904)
  • Trozos de vida , short stories (1907)
  • La niña de Luzmela , novel (1909)
  • La esfinge maragata (1914); (German: "Die Sphinx Margata", 1940)
  • La rosa de los vientos (1915)
  • Al amor de las estrellas (1916)
  • El metal de los muertos (1920); (German: "The metal of the dead", 1922)
  • El cáliz rojo (1923)
  • Altar mayor (1926)
  • La flor de ayer (1932)
  • El más fuerte (1945)
  • Valle en el mar (1950)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary Members: Concha Espina. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Espina, Concha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Espina, María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa; Espina y Tagla, Concha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1869 or May 14, 1869 or 1877 or April 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Spain
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1955
Place of death Madrid , Spain