Concha Urquiza
Concha Urquiza | |
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Michoacan, Mexico | |
| Died | 20 June 1946 (aged 35) Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico |
| Occupation | Poet, professor |
| Period | 20th century |
Concha Urquiza (born María Concepción Urquiza del Valle; 24 December 1910 - 20 June 1946) was a
thinker.Life
Two years after being born in Morelia, Michoacán, her father Luis Urquiza died, so along with her mother also named Concepción and her two siblings María Luisa and Luis, she moved to Mexico City. As a child, she attended the official primary school that was located on the Plaza de Dinamarca. Later she completed her secondary education at the school located in the Ribera de San Cosme, in a building formerly occupied by the Colegio del Sagrado Corazón.[2] In the city, under the auspices of the poet Muñoz y Domínguez, she wrote her first poem titled "Para tu amada" ("For your beloved").
When she was 12, she published the poems "Tus ojeras" ("The rings under your eyes") and at 13 "Canto del Oro" and "Conventual" in the magazines Revista de Yucatán and Revista de Revistas. Critics admired the creations of Urquiza, who sporadically published several poems in more than 10
At 16, Urquiza collaborated for the Revista de Revistas asking the following question: "What do you think of the new generation?" in interviews with Rafael López, Mariano Azuela, Xavier Villaurrutia, Victoriano Salado Álvarez and Federico Gamboa. The question was accompanied by a small introduction in connection with each of these authors, for example, in the case of Mariano Azuela, Uquiza said "The author of Evil Hour ...".
She lived in
Together with her great friend Rosario Oyarzun, who was a lawyer, Urquiza was part of a group of outstanding young professionals and Potosinian university students who would later have an outstanding career: Raúl Cardiel Reyes, Ignacio Retes, Pedro Rodríguez Zertuche, Humberto Arocha, Manuel Calvillo, Antonio Rosillo. Jesús Medina Romero and Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa also attended the meetings held, almost always, at Oyarzun's house and, if not, in the popular cafe Zaragoza.
She wrote in 1944 in Viñetas de la literatura michoacana, a monthly literary magazine from Morelia, where she shared credits with Porfirio Martínez, Alejandro Ruiz Villaloz, Alfonso Rubio y Rubio, Miguel Castro Ruiz, Luis Calderón Vega, P. Francisco Alday, Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Alejandro Avilés, Roberto Ibáñez, Jacques Leguebe, Eduardo de Ontañon, Manuel Ponce, Artemio de Valle Arizpe and Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa.
Urquiza was one of the Mexican writers who, like
Urquiza drowned[how?] in the sea at Ensenada, Baja California, at age 35, on June 20, 1945, along with a fellow traveler[who?].[citation needed]
Work
As Margarita León's research indicates, thanks to philologist Gabriel Méndez Plancarte the corpus of his friend Concha Urquiza's poetic work was not released until 1946, after her death, by the Mexican publishing house Bajo el Signo de Ábside, with the title Obras ("Works"). Various reissues of the book approved by Méndez Plancarte were prepared, among the most important, that of Antonio Castro Leal by the publishing house Jus in 1975 and Ricardo Garibay in 1985 under the title Nostalgia de Dios ("Nostalgia of God").[1]
In popular culture
"Cesárea Tinajero", the lost poetess character from the novel The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño was based on Concha Urquiza.[3]
References
- ^ a b León, Margarita (2007), Concha Urquiza: poemas de la adolescencia(inéditos y no recopilados) (PDF), vol. XVIII, Literatura Mexicana, pp. 231–241
- ^ Perdomo, María Teresa (2012). Cocha Urquiza y su obra (in Spanish). Secretaría de Cultura de Michoacán. Retrieved 10 August 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Huidobro, Sergio B. (24 February 2010). "Embriagada de Dios: Concha Urquiza, rescatada del olvido". MilMesetas. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
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