Blanca Santa Cruz Ossa
{{Short description|Chilean writer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Blanca Santa Cruz Ossa
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = c. 1886
| birth_place = Santiago, Chile
| death_date = 1969
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| nationality = Chilean
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| occupation = Writer
| years_active = 1929–1992
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| father = {{interlanguage link|Joaquín Santa Cruz Vargas|es}}
| mother = Carmela Ossa y Ossa
| relatives = Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa (sister)
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Blanca Santa Cruz y Ossa (c. 1886 – 1969{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OKMqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA171 |title=The Reception of Alfred Tennyson in Europe |chapter=The Reception of Alfred Lord Tennyson in Spain |editor-last=Ormond |editor-first=Leonee |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=9781350012523 |page=171 |date=17 November 2016 |access-date=3 October 2017 |via=Google Books}}) was a Chilean writer and editor of children's and young adult literature, with a special focus on intercultural literature, writing and compiling stories related to Chilean and international legends and myths.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YCJ3DA1aUIC&pg=PA189 |title=Alas para la infancia: fundamentos de literatura infantil |trans-title=Wings For Children: Fundamentals of Children's Literature |last=Peña Muñoz |first=Manuel |publisher=Editorial Universitaria |isbn=9789561111141 |page=189 |language=Spanish |year=1994 |access-date=3 October 2017 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-95638.html |title=Blanca Santa Cruz Ossa |website=Memoria Chilena |language=Spanish |access-date=3 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007014528/http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-95638.html |archive-date=2014-10-07 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UqX7ODB6JiwC&pg=PA302 |title=Ensayos de literatura infantil |trans-title=Essays On Children's Literature |last=Bravo-Villasante |first=Carmen |publisher=EDITUM |isbn=9788476841754 |pages=302–303 |language=Spanish |year=1989 |access-date=3 October 2017 |via=Google Books}}
Biography
The daughter of Senator {{interlanguage link|Joaquín Santa Cruz Vargas|es}} and Carmela Ossa y Ossa, she studied at the School of the Sacred Heart (English nuns) in Santiago.
Beginning in the 1930s, children's literature became prominent in Chile,{{Cite web |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-724.html |title=Literatura infantil chilena (1821–2002) |trans-title=Chilean Children's Literature (1821–2002) |website=Memoria Chilena |language=Spanish |access-date=3 October 2017}} and Blanca Santa Cruz y Ossa reached her most prolific stage of literary production during that decade.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9IJPJyYwl4C&pg=PA42 |title=Historia de la literatura infantil chilena |trans-title=History of Chilean Children's Literature |last=Peña Muñoz |first=Manuel |publisher=Andrés Bello |location=Santiago |page=42 |language=Spanish |year=1982 |access-date=3 October 2017 |via=Google Books}} In this context, she established herself as one of the leaders of the genre. In 1929 she began creating compilations of myths and legends of Chile and diverse places around the world. She was linked to other authors of the time, such as Ernesto Montenegro with his 1930 work Cuentos de mi Tío Ventura,{{Cite web |url=http://www.lecturaviva.cl/lecturav_wp/?p=639 |title=Breve historia de la literatura infantil chilena |trans-title=Brief history of Chilean Children's Literature |last=Peña Muñoz |first=Manuel |website=Lectura Viva |language=Spanish |access-date=3 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111116062058/http://www.lecturaviva.cl/lecturav_wp/?p=639 |archive-date=2011-11-16 |url-status=dead }} Damita Duende with Doce cuentos de príncipes y reyes and Doce cuentos de hadas (both in 1938), and Marta Brunet with Cuentos para Marisol (also published in 1938).
Some of her works were illustrated by {{interlanguage link|Elena Poirier|es}}, such as Cuentos chilenos (1956), El duende del pantano y otros cuentos de Bretaña (1992), and La escuela de las hadas y otros cuentos (1992). Her sister was Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa, editor of {{interlanguage link|El Peneca|es}}.
Works
- Cuentos maravillosos del Japón (Impr. Universo, 1935)
- Las hadas en Francia (1936)
- Leyendas moriscas (1936)
- Cuentos mitológicos griegos (1937)
- Cuentos húngaros (1937)
- Cuentos africanos (1939)
- Orejones y viracochas: (Diego de Almagro) (1943)
- Sangre y ceniza: narración novelesca de la conquista de Chile (1946)
- Cuentos chilenos (1956)
- Cuentos bretones (1973)
- El duende del pantano y otros cuentos de Bretaña (1992)
- La escuela de las hadas y otros cuentos (1992)
=Collection of stories, traditions, and legends from all countries=
- Cuentos rumanos: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (1929)
- Cuentos de España: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1936)
- Leyendas y cuentos araucanos: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1938)
- Poemas de Longfellow: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1936)
- Leyendas de la selva: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1936)
- Cuentos ingleses: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1936)
- Fábulas escogidas: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1937)
- Cuentos italianos: colección de tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1938)
- Leyendas de caballerías: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1938)
- Cuentos servios: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1939)
- Cuentos chinos: colección de cuentos, tradiciones y leyendas de todos los países (Impr. Universo, 1936 and 1940)
References
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Category:20th-century Chilean women writers
Category:20th-century Chilean short story writers
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Category:Chilean people of Basque descent
Category:Chilean women short story writers
Category:Chilean women children's writers
Category:Chilean women editors
Category:Women writers of young adult literature