María Teresa León Goyri
María Teresa León Goyri (born October 31, 1903 in Logroño , † December 13, 1988 in Madrid ) was a Spanish writer , publisher , theater director and member of the group of authors Generación del 27 .
Life
María Teresa was born in Logroño in 1903 , the daughter of Ángel León , colonel of the Spanish army, and his wife Oliva Goyri de la Llera . She spent her childhood in Madrid, Barcelona and Burgos and studied literature and philosophy at the Institución Libre de Enseñanza of the Universidad de Madrid .
In 1920, when she was still very young, she married her first husband, Gonzalo de Sebastián Alfaro. With him she had two sons, Gonzalo (* 1921) in Barcelona and Enrique (* 1925) in Burgos.
She then published numerous books, scripts, plays and translations in several languages. Together with Rafael Alberti , Rosa Chacel, Timoteo Pérez Rubio, Arturo Serrano Plaja and many other volunteer men and women from the region, she was in charge of saving countless pictures, art treasures and more than 40,000 books of inestimable literary value for Spanish history and thus prevented their loss in the Spanish Civil War that began in July 1936.
María Teresa León was a leading proponent of republican political theater. In 1933 she founded the Revista Octubre magazine and also wrote articles in the Periódico Heraldo de Madrid . During the civil war she was Vice-President of the Central Council Consejo Central del Teatro and Director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela . After the republican forces were defeated in the Spanish Civil War in 1939, she went into exile with Rafael Alberti to Argentina, where she continued to work as an author. On April 27, 1977, she returned to democratic Spain. Shortly before her death, she wrote the play La libertad en el tejado , which was premiered after her death in 1989.
Works (selection)
- Plays
- Huelga en el puerto, 1933,
- Misericordia,
- La tragedia optimista, 1937
- La libertad en el tejado, 1989
- Novels
- Contra viento y marea, AIAPE, Buenos Aires, 1941
- El gran amor de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Losada SA, editorial, Buenos Aires, 1946,
- Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid campeador, Peuser, Buenos Aires, 1954
- Juego limpio, Goyanarte, Buenos Aires, 1959
- Doña Jimena Díaz de Vivar, gran señora de todos, Losada SA, Editorial, Buenos Aires, 1960
- Menesteos, marinero de abril, Era, México, 1965
- Cervantes. El soldado que nos enseñó a hablar, Altalena, Madrid, 1978
- scientific essays
- Crónica General de la Guerra Civil, Alianza de Intelectuales Antifranquistas, Madrid, 1939
- La historia tiene la palabra, Patronato Hispano-Argentino de Cultura, Buenos Aires, 1944
Scripts
- El gran amor de Bécquer, 1946
- La dama duende, 1945, together with Rafael Alberti
- Los ojos más lindos del mundo, 1943
Posthumously
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of her death in 2003, María Teresa León Goyri dedicated a special exhibition to the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Society of Fine Arts) in the rooms of the historical cultural institution in Madrid.
Individual evidence
- ↑ miércoles, 4 de noviembre de 2015 A la sombra de Alberti, María Teresa Goyri (1903-1988), mujeresenlahistoria.com [1]
- ↑ María Teresa León: Rosa-fría, patinadora de la luna: cuentos. Ediciones de la Torre, 1990, pp. 39-40
- ^ El teatro de Maria Teresa León
- ^ Escritos inéditos de María Teresa León en la muestra del centenario
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | León Goyri, María Teresa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish writer, publisher, theater director and member of the group Generación del 27 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Logroño |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1988 |
| Place of death | Madrid |