Rosa Chacel

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In this
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Rosa Chacel
Bust of Chacel in Valladolid (1988), by Francisco Baron (1931-2006)
Born
Rosa Clotilde Chacel Arimón

(1898-06-03)3 June 1898
Valladolid, Spain
Died27 July 1994(1994-07-27) (aged 96)
Madrid, Spain

Rosa Clotilde Chacel Arimón (June 3, 1898 – July 27, 1994) was a famous and sometimes controversial

writer from Spain. She was a native of Valladolid
.

Early life

Chacel was born in

Madrid
. Chacel's move to Madrid occurred in 1908. Because of her weak health, she was home-schooled by her mother.

By 1909, Chacel's mother enlisted her at Madrid's Escuela de artes y oficios to study

feminist views. In 1915, Chacel, intrigued by the world of sculpture, enrolled at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, but she soon lost interest in the aforementioned topic and abandoned the school by 1918.[1]

Chacel then went on to become a regular at the

machista
views predominated in Spain, and Chacel's dialogue on that conference were considered off base or nonsensical by many members of Madrid's society.

Chacel, nevertheless, went on championing feminism as a new way to live for modern women, and, in 1921, she married a famous painter of the time,

Rome
after Pérez Rubio was granted a scholarship at the Academia de España. That same year, Chacel wrote her first article for the Ultra magazine. In 1927, she and her husband returned to Madrid.

In 1930, Chacel wrote her first

Berlin, to recover from her mother's death and a creative crisis. Soon after her return to Spain, the Spanish Civil War broke out. Pérez Rubio enlisted in the Republican Army and Chacel performed, among other things, as a nurse. During the same period she also contributed literary magazines Hora de España and Revista de Occidente.[2]

This new, political problem, forced Chacel to move multiple times with her son, and she lived in

Paris. In the meantime, her husband had the responsibility of moving out of the country the treasuries of the Museo del Prado to preserve them from the war devastation. After the end of the war, the family reunited and travelled to Brazil, where they lived for three decades, with short stays in Buenos Aires.[3]

Exile

The next years Chacel lived in relative obscurity: a well-known writer but one who had made no new projects in years. This changed in 1959, however, when she won a

New York City and return to writing. Chacel worked in New York until 1961, when, with her home country living a calmed down social state, she returned to Spain. In May 1963, Chacel returned to Brazil, where she remained until 1970, when she returned to Spain for a short stay. She would live in Brazil for three more years, as, in 1973, she made her second return to her home country.[5]

Return to Spain

Rosa Chacel

In 1977, her husband of 56 years died, and Chacel, who was a very frequent flyer between Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, decided to stay in Spain for good. She used her newly found status as a widow to try to rescue some of her old works and to write more novels.

Death and legacy

She died peacefully in Madrid on Sunday, August 7, 1994, aged 96.[6]

The Spanish national

Ezeiza International Airport
or Rio de Janeiro.

Awards and honors

  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Chacel was granted a
    Doctor Honoris Causa
    degree by the University of Valladolid (1989).
  • Towards the end of her life, she won various prestigious awards, some of whom were given by King
    Juan Carlos
    .
  • In 1987, she received the "National Award of the Letters (writing)", an award reserved for the very best writers of Spain.
  • In 1990, she received the "Premio Castilla y Leon de las letras" ("Castilla y Leon award of the letters"), an award whose winners are chosen by the King.

Notes

  1. ^ Global Britannica
  2. ISBN 978-0-313-28731-2
    .
  3. ^ New York Times, Eric Pace, "Rosa Chacel, 96, A Spanish Novelist Exiled for 36 Years", August 2, 1994
  4. ^ "Rosa Chacel". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  5. ^ (es) hispanicexile.bham.ac.uk Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ (fr)Le Monde, Obituary, 29.07.1994
  7. ^ El Pais, Obituary, 28 Jul. 1994
  8. ^ Independent.co.uk, James Kirkup, Friday 29 July 1994,Obituary

Books and newspapers

External links

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