biography
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Quiroga de la Válgoma, Elena
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pronunciation:
[kirohga thay la <
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| female
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Santander, N Spain. She spent much of her life up to 1950 on her father's estate in Barco de Valdeorras, Orense. After La soledad sonora (1949), an unsatisfactory achievement, she won the Premio Nadal of 1950 with Viento del norte and also in that year married Delmiro de la Válgoma, a historian, and went to live in Madrid. Viento del norte concerns an elderly Galician nobleman who marries a young servant who only after his death, caused partly by grief at her unconcern, realizes that she really loved him. La sangre (1952) is a saga of four generations of family life told by a tree, and is reminiscent of Antonio Buero Vallejo's Historia de una escalera. Algo pasa en la calle (1954) falls into the category of tremendismo, La enferma (1955) deals with the psychosomatic illness of a woman abandoned by her lover, and La careta (1955) explores the stream of consciousness in the manner of William Faulkner. Three short novels published in Plácida la joven y otras narraciones (1956) were followed by a remarkable ‘tour de force’, La última corrida (1958), a novel in dialogue on the lives of three toreros. Later works include Tristura (1960) and Escribo tu nombre (1965). |
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