Carmen Martín Gaite
(Salamanca, 1925-Madrid, 2000) Spanish writer.Considered one of the strongest values in Spanish literature after the civil war, her works focus on the analysis of the relationships between the individual and the community.
Graduated in Philosophy and Letters from the Salamanca University, she received her doctorate in Madrid with the thesis The loving uses of the Spanish 18th century .Her fellow students included Ignacio Aldecoa, whose work she would later study, and Agustín García Calvo.Occasional actress, her first works of literature and literary criticism were published in the Salamanca magazine Trabajos y Días.
Carmen Martín Gaite
In 1948, a At the age of twenty-five, he moved to Madrid, where he contacted young writers such as Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (with whom he later married, in 1958), Jesús Fernández Santos, Josefina Rodríguez, Alfonso Sastre or Medardo Fraile, among others.Introduced into literary circles by her old college classmate, Ignacio Aldecoa, she began to collaborate in newspapers and magazines, such as Revista Nueva.
Multifaceted writer, magnificent essayist and researcher and a good translator of writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Italo Svevo, Gustave Flaubert, Primo Levi and Emily Brontë, among others, for years she worked as a literary critic in one of the newspapers of the capital, Diario 16, an activity that he abandoned when the then director, Miguel Ángel Aguilar, was replaced in his position.She also worked for television on the scripts of a series on the figure of Santa Teresa de Jesús that she wrote in 1982 in collaboration with professor Víctor García de la Concha; For this same medium, she wrote the scripts for
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