Elisa Mújica

Elisa Mújica Velásquez (21 January 1918 – 27 March 2003) was a Colombian writer.

Elisa Mújica
BornElisa Mújica Velásquez
(1918-01-21)21 January 1918
Bucaramanga, Colombia
Died27 March 2003(2003-03-27) (aged 85)
Bogotá, Colombia
OccupationWriter, poet
LanguageSpanish
NationalityColombian
GenreNovel, short story

Career

Beginning in the 1980s, Mújica was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua and Real Academia Española.[1]

She worked in newspapers and magazines, publishing commentaries and book reviews in El Tiempo and El Espectador.

Her works are tied to Colombia, and tell stories from a social point of view.[1] She was also devoted to children's literature.

She lived in Spain in the 1950s and was an influence to her niece, the poet and journalist María Mercedes Carranza.[2]

Published works

Novels
  • Los dos tiempos, 1949
  • Catalina, 1963
  • Bogotá de las nubes, 1984

Essays
  • El Indio en América: síntesis de obras americanas sobre el problema indígena, 1948
  • La aventura demorada: ensayo sobre santa Teresa de Jesús, 1951
  • La Candelaria, 1974
  • Introducción a Santa Teresa, 1981
  • Las altas torres del humo: raíces del cuento popular en Colombia, 1985
  • Sor Francisca Josefa de Castillo, 1991

Short stories
  • Ángela y el diablo, 1953
  • Árbol de ruedas, 1972
    • "Prólogo"; "La Montaña"; "Las reclusas"; "La biblioteca"; "La acacia"; "El visitante"; "El espejo y el rubí"; "El aeropuerto"; "La palmera"; "La perla"; "El documento"; "La silla giratoria"; "El retrato"
  • La tienda de las imágenes, 1987
  • Cuentos, 2009

Children's literature
  • La Expedición Botánica contada a los niños, 1978
  • Bestiario, 1980
  • Pequeño Bestiario, 1990
  • Las casas que hablan: guía histórica del barrio de la Candelaria de Santa Fé de Bogotá, 1994
  • Cuentos para niños de La Candelaria, 1997

Autobiography
  • Diario: 1968–1971, 2008

Criticism
  • Reminiscencias de Santafé de Bogotá, de José María Cordovez Moure, Aguilar, 1957

Awards and recognition
  • "Tribute of admiration" from the jury of the 1962 Esso Literature Prize, for her novel Catalina[3][4]

References
  1. Ballesteros Rosas, Luisa (1997). La escritora en la sociedad latinoamericana [The woman writer in Latin American society] (in Spanish). University of Valle. p. 252. ISBN 9789586701143.
  2. Jáuregui, Carlos (2000). "María Mercedes Carranza". In Tompkins, Cynthia Margarita; Foster, David William (eds.). Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 71–76.
  3. Silva, Yamile (July–December 2007). "Narrar la violencia con voz femenina: Elisa Mújica, Albalucía Ángel y Laura Restrepo" [Narrating La Violencia with a feminine voice: Elisa Mújica, Albalucía Ángel, and Laura Restrepo]. Estudios de Literatura Colombiana (in Spanish) (21): 57–72. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  4. Schultze-Kraft, Markus (1 January 2005). "Escritoras de Colombia" [Women Writers of Colombia]. Pacificación y poder civil en Centroamérica [Pacification and civil power in Central America] (in Spanish). Editorial Norma. p. 90. ISBN 9789580489528. Retrieved 6 October 2016.


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