Carmen de Icaza
(Madrid, 1904-1979) Spanish novelist.She was the daughter of the Mexican poet and academic Francisco A.de Icaza, at the time his country's ambassador in Madrid.Her very childhood was spent in a literary environment to which her father's gathering contributed to a great extent, which was attended by Juan Ramón Jiménez, José Ortega y Gasset, Rubén Darío and Amado Nervo, also a Mexican diplomat.Later, her father's career would take her to various cities in Europe.Especially important was her stay in Berlin, where she received a careful education in classical and modern languages.
Carmen de Icaza
In 1925, and again in Spain, her father.The family's lack of resources leads her to apply for a position at the newspaper El Sol, thanks to her father's friendship with Ortega, the newspaper's founder.It deals with the feminine page, from which it echoes the problems of women.He immediately began to collaborate in ABC, Blanco y Negro y Ya, of whose writing he became part in 1935 and from which he carried out a campaign in favor of single mothers and underprivileged children.
He married with Pedro Montojo Sureda and the following year he had his only daughter, to whom he would dedicate much of his time due to her sickly constitution.During the forced unemployment, Cristina Guzmán, a language teacher begins, and will be released in installments in 1935 and as a book in 1936.It is a novel of the calls of love and luxury, a genre with which the most Identify this author.However, he had previously published The Wedding of Duke Kurt , under a pseudonym, in 1935.It was a novel written during his youthful years in Berlin that he remade at the request of the newspaper Ya and in 1950 She published, again corrected, under the title of Talia .
After the civil war, during which she is part of the Social Assistance (institution to which she will remain linked, as well as with the Red Cross, for more than twenty years), he continues his novelistic work with Who knows...! (1940).This will be followed by Soñar la vida (1941), a very appropriate title for a genre that the female population clung to as a means of escape from the terrible reality of the Spanish postwar period and World War II; Dressed in tulle (1942); Time returns (1945); The buried source (1947), her favorite novel, which represents a turn in her career that leads her to become independent from her publisher and to abandon the pink genre, although without leaving the sentimental theme; I, the Queen (1950); The hours counted (1953) and The house opposite (1960).
Successful author (in 1945 she was proclaimed the most read novelist of the year ), his work was translated into all the languages of Western Europe and he met film adaptations ( Cristina Guzmán ) and television ( Vestida de tul ).The author herself made in 1939 a dramatic adaptation of Cristina Guzmán in collaboration with Luis de Vargas and, in 1944, this time alone, of Vestida de tul .Created expressly for the theater was Face to face (1941).The television script Proceso a Mariana Pineda is also her.
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