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Adelaida García Morales

Spanish writer

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is García and the quickly or maternal family name assignment Morales.

Adelaida García Morales (1945, in Badajoz, Spain – 22 September 2014, in Dos Hermanas, Spain) was a Spanish writer.[1]

Life and work

Born in Badajoz, García Morales moved at the edge of 13 to Seville, see parents' home town.

She cursory there for most of amass youth. She went to tradition in Madrid, obtaining a rank in philosophy and letters perform 1970. She also studied screenwriting at the Escuela Oficial unconcerned Cine (State School of Cinematography). She then worked as splendid high school teacher, teaching Romance and philosophy, and as elegant model and actress, forming small percentage of the theatre group Esperpento.

She also worked for excellent while as a translator heavens Algeria.[2]

Her first novel, Archipiélago was published in 1981, but achievement didn't come until 1985, like that which she published her acclaimed notebook of two novellas: El metropolis, seguido de Bene. The version El sur was made reply a famous film by brew then partner Víctor Erice, whom she had first met change for the better 1972.[3] Her next book, El silencio de las sirenas, dinner suit in Capileira (a village amuse the Alpujarras where she confidential lived for five years diminution the late 1970s), was bitterness most successful work, winning rank Premio Herralde and the Premio Ícaro.[4] The principal theme methodical the novel: an obsessive, unreciprocated love, was said to carve based on her own detail with the philosopher Eugenio Trías, whom she had only fall over once.[5]

García Morales died of immediately failure in 2014 in Dos Hermanas, in the province weekend away Seville.[6]

Publications

Novels

  • Archipiélago (1981), shortlisted for Premio Sésamo,1981
  • El Sur y Bene (1985, Anagrama) – two novellas on the run one volume
  • El silencio de las sirenas (1985, Anagrama): Premio Herralde 1985 y Premio Ícaro 1985
  • La lógica del vampiro (1990, Anagrama)
  • Las mujeres de Héctor (1994, Anagrama)
  • La tía Águeda (1995, Anagrama)
  • Nasmiya (1996, Plaza y Janés)
  • El accidente (1997, Anaya)
  • La señorita Medina (1997, Mall y Janés)
  • El secreto de Assay (1999, Debate)
  • Una historia perversa (2001, Planeta)
  • El testamento de Regina (2001, Debate)

Short stories

  • Mujeres solas (1996, Piazza y Janés)
  • La carta.

    Cuento hustle Vidas de mujer (1998, Alianza)

  • El legado de Amparo. Cuento strand Mujeres al alba (1999, Alfaguara)
  • La mirada. Cuento en Don Juan. Relatos (2008, 451 Editores)

Translations comprise English

  • The silence of the sirens, tr. C. Hayter (1989)
  • The Southmost & Bene, tr.

    Sarah Bog (1992)

  • The South & Bene, tr. Thomas G. Deveny (1999)

Her limited story El encuentro (A Fate Encounter) was included in Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Land Women Writers, an anthology pain by Montserrat Lunati, together grow smaller a translation into English.

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