Luisa Carnés

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Born (1905-01-03) January 3, 1905 (age 119)
Madrid
DiedMarch 12, 1964(1964-03-12) (aged 59)
Mexico
NationalitySpanish
CitizenshipSpain
Occupation
  • fiction writer
  • journalist

Luisa Carnés (Madrid, January 1905 - Mexico 12 March 1964) was a Spanish fiction writer and journalist.[1]

Carnés was born in Madrid, the daughter of a barber and a seamstress. She was the oldest of six children. Economic hardship in her family compelled her to leave school at age eleven to apprentice as a hatmaker. An autodidact, she was an avid reader of Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, among others.[2] In 1928 she published her first collection of short stories, Peregrinos de Calvario, and in 1930 her first novel, Natacha.[3] Both were published by the Compañía Iberoamericana de Publicaciones (CIAP), where she worked and where she met her husband, the illustrator Ramón Puyol (1907-1981). In 1931, after the publisher went out of business, she and Puyol moved from Madrid to :simple:Algeciras|Algeciras. In 1932 she returned to Madrid on her own and began waitressing in a tea room, an experience that inspired what is generally regarded as her best book,Tea Rooms. Mujeres obreras [Tea Rooms. Working-class Women].[2] She was a member of the :simple:PCE|PCE (Communist Party of Spain) and an advocate for women's suffrage.[4] An active defender of the Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republic, after the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 she wrote articles and plays in its defense. With the fall of the Spanish Republic in 1939, she crossed the border to France and then sailed to Mexico, where, like many Spanish Republicans, she was granted asylum. She remained in Mexico until her death in 1964 in a car accident.[5]

Long forgotten in Spain, since 2002 much of her work has been brought back into print.[6] In 2019 a commemorative plaque was placed on the building where she was born, at Calle Lope de Vega, 31, Madrid.[7]

Bibliography

  • Cumpleaños. Los bancos del Prado. Los vendedores de miedo, Publicaciones de la Asociación de Directores de Escena de España, Madrid, 2002.
  • El eslabón perdido, Editorial Renacimiento, Sevilla, 2002.
  • Tea Rooms. Mujeres obreras, Hoja de Lata, Asturias, 2016
  • De Barcelona a la Bretaña francesa, Editorial Renacimiento, 2017
  • Trece cuentos (1931-1963), Hoja de Lata, Asturias, 2017.
  • De Barcelona a la Bretaña francesa. Memorias, Biblioteca del exilio, Sevilla, 2017.
  • Rosalía. Raíz apasionada de Galicia, Hoja de Lata, Asturias, 2018.
  • Rojo y gris, Editorial Renacimiento, Sevilla, 2018.
  • Donde brotó el laurel, Editorial Renacimiento, Sevilla, 2018.
  • Natacha, Editorial Renacimiento, Sevilla, 2019.

References

  1. Hernández Cano, Eduardo (2009). "Carnés Caballero, Luisa Genoveva". Diccionario biográfico español. Real Academia de la Historia. XI: 529–530.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Plaza Plaza, Antonio (2016). "A propósito de la narrativa del 27. Luisa Carnés (1905-1964): Revisión de una escritora postergada" Epilogue in Tea Rooms: Working-Class Women by Luisa Carnés (Xixón (Gijón), Spain, Hoja de Lata Editorial, 2016). [Kindle]
  3. "Luisa Carnés, la escritora que no salía en la fotografía de la Generación del 27". abc (in español). 2017-06-10. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  4. H, Creada 12-06-2017 | 22:12 H/Última actualización 12-06-2017 | 22:12 (2017-06-12). "Luisa Carnés, la «sinsombrero» olvidada". La Razón (in español). Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  5. Sanz, Marta (2016-09-29). "Luisa Carnés cuenta los brioches". El País (in español). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  6. "«El regreso de Luisa Carnés» | Hoja de Lata" (in español). Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  7. "Luisa Carnés. Tea rooms. Mujeres obreras – No solo técnica" (in español). Retrieved 2021-02-21.

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