Olga Grau
{{Short description|Chilean writer, full professor and philosopher}}
{{Spanish married name|Grau|Duhart}}
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Olga Ida Magdalena Grau Duhart (born September 21, 1945) is a contemporary Chilean writer, full professor, and philosopher,{{cite book |last1=Olea |first1=Raquel |last2=Morada |first2=Corporación de Desarrollo de la Mujer La |title=Escrituras de la diferencia sexual |date=2000 |publisher=LOM Ediciones |isbn=978-956-282-247-3 |page=293 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i0oDmdK1VKUC&pg=PA293 |access-date=29 March 2022 |language=es}} a specialist in gender, sexuality, philosophy, education, and literature.{{cite web |title=Olga Grau, Investigación |url=http://www.filosofia.uchile.cl/investigacion/51914/olga-grau |website=filosofia.uchile.cl |access-date=29 March 2022 |language=es}}
Early life and education
Olga Ida Magdalena Grau Duhart{{cite journal |title=Conicyt |journal=Panorama Científico |date=November 2010 |volume=24 |url=https://www.conicyt.cl/fondecyt/files/2012/09/articles-27688_panorama_2010.pdf |access-date=29 March 2022 |issn=0716-100X |language=es|page=84}} was born in Santiago, Chile, September 21, 1945. She has a Diploma in childhood studies from Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey, U.S., and a Doctorate in Literature with a specialization in Chilean and Hispanic literature from the University of Chile.
Career and research
Grau was awarded a FONDECYT project in 1993, for "Discurso, Género y Poder: Un Análisis de Discursos Públicos Oficiales en Chile (1978-1993)" (Discourse, Gender and Power: An Analysis of Official Public Discourses in Chile (1978-1993)) and in 1995, for "El Relato Mítico de la Quintrala en el Imaginario Cultural" (The Mythical Story of the Quintrala in the Cultural Imaginary).{{cite web |last1=Delsing |first1=Riet |title=El Discurso de la Familia en el Chile de Hoy. |url=https://www.aacademica.org/ii.congreso.chileno.de.antropologia/10 |publisher=Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile A. G. |access-date=29 March 2022 |language=es |date=1995}} In 2010, she was awarded another FONDECYT project entitled: "Filosofía, Literatura y Género: La Escritura de Simone de Beauvoir" (Philosophy, Literature and Gender: The Writing of Simone de Beauvoir).{{cite web |title=Proyectos de Olga Ida Magdalena Grau Duhart |url=http://ri.conicyt.cl/575/propertyvalue-83467.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402103606/http://ri.conicyt.cl/575/propertyvalue-83467.html |access-date=29 March 2022|archive-date=2015-04-02 }}{{cite web |title=FILOSOFIA, LITERATURA Y GENERO: LA ESCRITURA DE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR - CONICYT. Repositorio Institucional. Chile |url=http://ri.conicyt.cl/575/article-37287.html |access-date=29 March 2022 |language=es |date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115103/http://ri.conicyt.cl/575/article-37287.html |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}
She works as a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities and at the "Centro de Estudios de Género y Cultura en América Latina" (CEGECAL) (Center for Gender and Cultural Studies in Latin America) at the University of Chile. She is also coordinator of the Philosophy for Children program and director of the " Comunidad de Indagación en Filosofía e Infancia en Chile" (CIFICH) (Community of Inquiry in Philosophy and Childhood in Chile).{{cite web |title=CIFICH. Comunidad de Indagacion en Filosofia e Infancia en Chile |url=https://archive.org/download/cifich_201411/Integrantes.html |website=ia902701.us.archive.org |access-date=29 March 2022 |language=es}} Grau has written books and essays, and made presentations on gender, sexuality, philosophy, childhood, education and literature.
Awards and honours
In 1999, she received an award from the Book Council in the category “unpublished essay” for her text "Catalina, Catrala, Quintrala. Tres nombres y una persona no más" (Catalina, Catrala, Quintrala. Three names and just one person).{{cite news |title=Editores Disputan por Manuscritos |url=https://digital.elmercurio.com/2022/03/29/A |access-date=29 March 2022 |work=El Mercurio |language=es}}
Selected works
= Books =
- Cosas y palabras: manual de filosofía para educadores de párvulos (1995)
- Filosofía para la infancia: relatos y desarrollo de actividades (2006)
- Ser y convivir: propuesta pedagógica para el desarrollo personal y la convivencia social de niños y niñas (2000)
= Essays =
- "La Ambigua Escritura de Simone de Beauvoir" (2013)
- "La Escritura de Simone de Beauvoir como Proyecto Global" (2014)
References
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Category:People from Santiago, Chile
Category:21st-century Chilean non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century Chilean women writers