Carmen de Pinillos
Carmen Torres Calderón de Pinillos (1909–1943) was a Peruvian writer, editor, and translator.
Biography
She was born in Peru in 1909 and died in New York City in 1943.[1] She was educated in a convent, but continued her studies after leaving the convent.
Marrying a well-to-do man, she left her girlhood home at Trujillo, Peru and moved near Lima. When her husband lost his fortune, she became a fashion editor of a bi-monthly magazine, the Illustracion Peruana, and then editor of a magazine for children. The small magazine met with unprecedented success, and she eventually tried writing original articles, and translating French and Italian novels for the daily papers. Pinillos never used her own name. "It would have hurt the papers and magazines," she explained, "to have it known that the articles—except the fashion articles— were written by a woman, and besides, it was never done." When the editor of Illustracion died, Pinillos took his place, editing the magazine for a year, but still secretly. Later the magazine was discontinued. Seeing no literary future for herself in her own country, Pinillos came to the United States— "where women could work'"—bringing with her a little daughter.
Her work began in
References
- ^ "Heritage". Carmen Torres Calderón.
- ^ The Woman's Journal (Public domain ed.). Woman Citizen Corporation. 1921. pp. 159–.
- ^ Bulletin of the Pan American Union (Public domain ed.). U.S. Government Printing Office. 1922. pp. 34–.
Bibliography
This article incorporates text from The Woman's Journal, by Woman Citizen Corporation, a publication from 1921, now in the public domain in the United States.
External links
- Works by Carmen de Pinillos at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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