Marta Blanco
{{Short description|Chilean writer and journalist (1938–2020)}}
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Marta Blanco (1938–2020), was a Chilean writer and journalist.{{Cite web|last=Cooperativa.cl|title=Fallece a los 82 años la periodista y escritora Marta Blanco|url=https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/cultura/literatura/fallece-a-los-82-anos-la-periodista-y-escritora-marta-blanco/2020-04-22/084137.html|access-date=2020-10-28|website=Cooperativa.cl|language=Spanish}}
Early life
Blanco was born in 1938 in Viña del Mar.{{Cite web|last=Andrés Gómez|date=2020-04-22|title=Muere Marta Blanco, la escritora y periodista que conjugó memoria y ficción|url=https://www.latercera.com/culto/noticia/muere-marta-blanco-la-escritora-y-periodista-que-conjugo-memoria-y-ficcion/FG5WOWRMLFC6XBMZ5P2QK3VIZU/|access-date=2020-12-15|website=La Tercera}}
Personal life
Blanco was married to Enrique Lafourcade.{{Cite web|date=2009-11-17|title=Memorias en blanco y negro {{!}} CARAS|url=http://www.caras.cl/cultura-espectaculos-y-tv/libros/2009/11/memorias-en-blanco-y-negro/|access-date=2020-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091117153318/http://www.caras.cl/cultura-espectaculos-y-tv/libros/2009/11/memorias-en-blanco-y-negro/|archive-date=2009-11-17|language=es}} She was his second wife and they were together for seven years. He had been married to Chilean-born Canadian artist Maria Luisa Segnoret and he went on to marry Chilean painter Rossana Pizarro Garcia.[http://diario.elmercurio.cl/detalle/index.asp?id={8b5e106e-0f38-4074-b4fb-657cc9889204} El Mercurio, Artes y Letras: Animales Literarios], by Rossana Pizarro, 9 September 2001.
Books
- The Generation Of The Leaves, Zig-Zag, 1965.{{Cite web|title=A los 82 años fallece la periodista y escritora Marta Blanco « Diario y Radio U Chile|url=https://radio.uchile.cl/2020/04/22/a-los-82-anos-fallece-la-periodista-y-escritora-marta-blanco/|access-date=2020-10-28|language=es-ES}}
- Everything Is A Lie, Editora Brocal, 1974 – contains 13 stories,
- # Bluegirl
- # The disappearance of Eleodoro
- # Gath & Chávez
- # Golden wedding
- # The general's feast
- # Roast chickens
- # A paper crown
- # Motel
- # The artist consoled
- # Presence
- # Maternity
- # Optical One: She thought she was thinking about it
- # Optics two: Mirage
- For The Left Hand, Caos Ediciones, 1990; contains 12 stories,
- # Japanese Towels
- # Fueguina
- # Chu Yuan's iniquities
- # Walk
- # Flatterer
- # Moon that breaks
- # Dark honeysuckle affair
- # The Lord have mercy on Schtodt
- # The saccade of the nuns
- # The representative of the fourth part of the universe
- # By Eye
- # Interrogation by chosen people who know
- Maradentro, Alfaguara, Santiago, 1997.
- La Emperrada, Alfaguara, Santiago, 2001.
- Whale Memory, Uqbar, Santiago, 2009
Awards
- Story Contest of the magazine Paula 1975.
- Story Contest of the magazine Paula 1980.
- Cuentos de El Mercurio Award 1995.
- Tales of El Mercurio Award 1997.
- Erotic Tales Award 2005 (Caras magazine).
- Critics Award 2009 (Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile) for Memory of whales .{{Cite web|last=S.A.P|first=El Mercurio|date=2010-01-07|title=Marta Blanco, Patricio Sabaté y Francisco Gacitúa figuran entre los premios del Círculo de Críticos de Arte {{!}} Emol.com|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/2010/01/07/392701/marta-blanco-patricio-sabate-y-francisco-gacitua-figuran-entre-los-premios-del-circulo-de-criticos-de-arte.html|access-date=2020-10-28|website=Emol|language=Spanish}}
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Category:20th-century Chilean women writers
Category:20th-century Chilean novelists
Category:Chilean women novelists
Category:Chilean women journalists
Category:People from Viña del Mar
Category:21st-century Chilean women writers
Category:21st-century Chilean novelists
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