María Esther de Miguel
{{Short description|Argentine writer (1929–2003)}}
María Esther de Miguel (1 November 1929, Larroque, Entre Ríos Province – Buenos Aires, 27 July 2003) was an Argentine writer.
Biography
Miguel was the daughter of a Spanish immigrant and Jewish mother. At the age of eight, she won a literary contest in composition at school, which was the beginning of her writing career.{{cite news|title=Murió María Esther de Miguel, una de las escritoras más leídas|url=http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2003/07/28/s-02801.htm|accessdate=5 June 2016|publisher=Clarin|date=28 July 2003|language=Spanish}} In her adolescence, she began writing novellas at the Congregación de los Paulinos in Buenos Aires. Her studies included philosophy and literature, earning a scholarship to study literature in Italy. When she returned to Argentina, she abandoned her Catholic religious vocation, and worked as a teacher and journalist. Miguel served as director of the literary magazine Señales and collaborated in the literary supplement of the newspaper La Nación. She served in a leadership role at the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
Miguel was married to the editor Andrés Alfonso Bravo. She died of colorectal cancer in 2003.{{cite news|last1=Friera |first1=Silvina |title=La escritora que bajó del bronce la vida y la obra de los próceres |url=http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/espectaculos/6-23292.html |accessdate=5 June 2016 |publisher=Pagina 12 |date=28 July 2003 |language=Spanish |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703114413/http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/espectaculos/6-23292.html |archivedate=July 3, 2007 }}
Selected works
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
- 1961 "La hora undécima" (novela)
- 1965 "Los que comimos a Solís" (short stories)
- 1970 "Calamares en su tinta" (novela)
- 1972 "En el otro tablero" (short stories)
- 1973 "Pueblamérica" (novela) - republished in 1998 with the title "Violentos jardines de América"
- 1980 "Espejos y daguerrotipos" (novela)
- 1983 "Jaque a Paysandú" (novela)
- 1986 "Dos para arriba, uno para abajo" (short stories)
- 1991 "Norah Lange" (biography)
- 1993 "La amante del restaurador" (novela)
- 1995 "Las batallas secretas de Belgrano" (novela)
- 1996 "El general, el pintor y la dama" (novela)
- 1997 "En el otro lado del tablero " (short stories)
- 1999 "Un dandy en la corte del rey Alfonso" (novela)
- 2001 "El palacio de los patos" (novela)
{{div col end}}
Awards
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
- Premio Emecé (for La hora undécima)
- Premio del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (for Los que comimos a Solís)
- Segundo Premio Municipal (for Los que comimos a Solís)
- Premio Municipal (for Espejos y daguerrotipos)
- Premio Planeta (for El general, el pintor y la dama)
- Premio Nacional de Literatura
- Palma de Plata of the Pen Club
- Konex Award
- Premio Dupuytrén
{{div col end}}
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- Clarmi Bueno Zandona: Una mirada sobre la obra de María Esther de Miguel. Universidad de les Illes Balears, Palma 2000.
- Malva E. Filer: Las nuevas „traduciones“ de María Esther de Miguel. In: Alba de América, Bd. 3 (1985); Nr. 4/5, pages 98–104.
- Eduardo Romano (Hrsg.): Héctor Tizón. Germán Rozenmacher, Abelardo Castillo, María Esther de Miguel. Kapellusz, Buenos Aires 1987, {{ISBN|950-13-2242-4}} (Narradores argentinos; 2).
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miguel, Maria Esther de}}
Category:Argentine people of Spanish descent
Category:Argentine women novelists