Elisa Mújica
| Elisa Mújica | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elisa Mújica Velásquez 21 January 1918 Bucaramanga, Colombia |
| Died |
27 March 2003 (aged 85) Bogotá, Colombia |
| Occupation | Writer, poet |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Genre | Novel, short story |
Elisa Mújica Velásquez (21 January 1918 – 27 March 2003) was a Colombian writer.
Career
Beginning in the 1980s, Mújica was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua and Real Academia Española.[1]
She worked in newspapers and magazines, publishing commentaries and book reviews in El Tiempo and El Espectador.
Her works are tied to Colombia, and tell stories from a social point of view.[1] She was also devoted to children's literature.
She lived in Spain in the 1950s and was an influence to her niece, the poet and journalist María Mercedes Carranza.[2]
Published works
Novels
- Los dos tiempos, 1949
- Catalina, 1963
- Bogotá de las nubes, 1984
Essays
- El Indio en América: síntesis de obras americanas sobre el problema indígena, 1948
- La aventura demorada: ensayo sobre santa Teresa de Jesús, 1951
- La Candelaria, 1974
- Introducción a Santa Teresa, 1981
- Las altas torres del humo: raíces del cuento popular en Colombia, 1985
- Sor Francisca Josefa de Castillo, 1991
Short stories
- Ángela y el diablo, 1953
- Árbol de ruedas, 1972
- "Prólogo"; "La Montaña"; "Las reclusas"; "La biblioteca"; "La acacia"; "El visitante"; "El espejo y el rubí"; "El aeropuerto"; "La palmera"; "La perla"; "El documento"; "La silla giratoria"; "El retrato"
- La tienda de las imágenes, 1987
- Cuentos, 2009
Children's literature
- La Expedición Botánica contada a los niños, 1978
- Bestiario, 1980
- Pequeño Bestiario, 1990
- Las casas que hablan: guía histórica del barrio de la Candelaria de Santa Fé de Bogotá, 1994
- Cuentos para niños de La Candelaria, 1997
Autobiography
- Diario: 1968-1971, 2008
Criticism
- Reminiscencias de Santafé de Bogotá, de José María Cordovez Moure, Aguilar, 1957
Awards and recognition
- "Tribute of admiration" from the jury of the 1962 Esso Literature Prize, for her novel Catalina[3][4]
References
- 1 2 Ballesteros Rosas, Luisa (1997). La escritora en la sociedad latinoamericana [The woman writer in Latin American society] (in Spanish). University of Valle. p. 252. ISBN 9789586701143.
- ↑ Jáuregui, Carlos (2000). "María Mercedes Carranza". In Tompkins, Cynthia Margarita; Foster, David William. Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 71–76.
- ↑ Silva, Yamile (July–December 2007). "Narrar la violencia con voz femenina: Elisa Mújica, Albalucía Ángel y Laura Restrepo" [Narrating La Violencia with a feminine voice: Elisa Mújica, Albalucía Ángel, and Laura Restrepo]. Estudios de Literatura Colombiana (in Spanish) (21): 57–72. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ↑ Schultze-Kraft, Markus (1 January 2005). "Escritoras de Colombia" [Women Writers of Colombia]. Pacificación y poder civil en Centroamérica [Pacification and civil power in Central America] (in Spanish). Editorial Norma. p. 90. ISBN 9789580489528. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
External links
- Review of the novel Catalina at UNESCO Portal (Spanish)
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