Carmen de Alonso

Carmen de Alonso
Carmen de Alonso
Born	Carmen Margarita Carrasco Barrios; 1909; La Serena, Chile
Died	1993 (aged 83–84)
Occupation	Author

Carmen de Alonso (1909–1993) was the pseudonym of Carmen Margarita Carrasco Barrios, a Chilean author.

Biography

Carmen Margarita Carrasco Barrios was born in La Serena. She studied in Ovalle and Santiago and was awarded the title of Profesora normalista. She worked as a teacher in Santiago and held several positions at the Biblioteca Nacional.[1]

She began to have success publishing short stories, and was a prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines, including the journal Atanea and her own column "Al Pasar" in the magazine Margarita.[1] In the 1950s she became well known for her children's story collections Medallones de sol and Medallones de luna.[2] In 1957 her story "La puebla" (later included in the 1962 collection La cita and many other anthologies) won the Mariano Latorre Prize for Folktales.[1] In the early 1960s her anthologies Érase una amapolita and La casita de cristal were also popular.[3]

Many of her stories were folktales set in Chile's northern region and touched on conditions of poverty, violence, and injustice.[1] Alonso was recognized as one of the country's most distinguished writers about rural life, and her stories were collected in many books.[4]

Works

Novels

Anclas en la ciudad (1941)

Short story collections

Gleba (1936)
Provena (1938)
Y había luz de estrellas (1950)
La cita (1962)

Children's story collections

Medallones de sol (1955)
Medallones de luna (1956)
Cantaritos (Leyendas americanas) (1958)
Érase una amapolita: Nuevas leyendas americanas (1962)
La casita de cristal (1962)[1]

References

Berg, Mary (1999). "Carmen de Alonso (1909–1993)". In Rojas Piña, Benjamín; Pinto Villarroel, Patricia (eds.). Escritoras chilenas [Chilean Women Writers] (in Spanish). Editorial Cuarto Propio. pp. 197–209. ISBN 9789562601191. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.
Peña Muñoz, Manuel (1982). Historia de la literatura infantil chilena [History of Chilean Children's Literature] (in Spanish). Andres Bello. p. 80. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.
Peña Muñoz, Manuel (1982). Historia de la literatura infantil chilena [History of Chilean Children's Literature] (in Spanish). Andres Bello. p. 82. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.
Silva Castro, Raúl (1960). Evolución de las letras chilenas, 1810–1960 [Evolution of Chilean Writing, 1810–1960] (in Spanish). Andrés Bello. p. 82. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.

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[Escritoras-1] Berg, Mary (1999). "Carmen de Alonso (1909–1993)". In Rojas Piña, Benjamín; Pinto Villarroel, Patricia (eds.). Escritoras chilenas [Chilean Women Writers] (in Spanish). Editorial Cuarto Propio. pp. 197–209. ISBN 9789562601191. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.

[2] Peña Muñoz, Manuel (1982). Historia de la literatura infantil chilena [History of Chilean Children's Literature] (in Spanish). Andres Bello. p. 80. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.

[3] Peña Muñoz, Manuel (1982). Historia de la literatura infantil chilena [History of Chilean Children's Literature] (in Spanish). Andres Bello. p. 82. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.

[4] Silva Castro, Raúl (1960). Evolución de las letras chilenas, 1810–1960 [Evolution of Chilean Writing, 1810–1960] (in Spanish). Andrés Bello. p. 82. Retrieved 9 December 2016 – via Google Books.