María Luisa Artecona de Thompson

María Luisa Artecona de Thompson (July 12, 1919 – December 10, 2003) was a Paraguayan poet and playwright. She was known for her work for children and in particular her anthology of writing for Paraguayan children.

María Luisa Artecona de Thompson
BornJuly 12, 1919
Guarambaré
DiedDecember 10, 2003
Asunción
NationalityParaguay

Life

Thompson was born in Guarambaré in 1919. Her parents were Guillermo Artecona and Maria Cardenas. She went to the local Goethe School.[1] She graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.[2]

Her 1965 work Guarambaré won the Donsel prize which noted not only the quality but the impressive quantity of her work.[3]

She was the Professor holding the chair for literature at Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic University.[2]

In 1992 she published her Anthology of Infantile-Juvenile Literature from Paraguay.[3] She was recognised outside Paraguay as a writer for children.[4] In the same year she published three works with themes involving puppets El titiritero (The Puppeteer), La hojita de papel (The Little Sheet of Paper) and El vigilante y el ladrón (The Guard and the Robber).

She was an advisor to the Department of Higher Education and Cultural Diffusion of the Ministry of Education and Worship.[5]

Thompson died on 10 December 2003 in Asunción.[5]

Works include
  • The Heroic Dream (1963)
  • Song to Sleep a Rose (1964)
  • Guarambaré (1965)
  • Letters to the Sun Lord (1966)[3]
  • El Canto a Oscuras (Song in the Dark)[6]
  • El titiritero (The Puppeteer, 1992)
  • La hojita de papel (The Little Sheet of Paper, 1992)
  • El vigilante y el ladrón (The Guard and the Robber)
  • L’Anthologie de la littérature de jeunesse paraguayenne (Anthology of Literature for Young Paraguayans, 1992)[3]

Private life

She married Roberto Thompson Molinas and they had four children, Roberto, Hugo, Jacqueline and Monica. Her ex-husband died a year later - he had married again and had been living with his new wife in the USA for twenty years.[7]

References
  1. "Falleció la poetisa María Luisa Artecona - Espectáculos - ABC Color". www.abc.com.py (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  2. "María Luisa Artecona de Thompson". World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts. 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  3. "Artecona de Thompson, María Luisa (1927-VVVV). » MCNBiografias.com". www.mcnbiografias.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  4. Hunt, Peter (2004-08-02). International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43684-2.
  5. de 2019 0:01, Espectáculo-Edición Impresa15 de julio. "Centenario de María Luisa Artecona de Thompson". www.lanacion.com.py. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  6. Cervantes, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de. "Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes". Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  7. "Nota A Esta Edición", Para decir al Otro, Frankfurt a. M., Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, pp. 15–16, 2016-12-31, doi:10.31819/9783964566560-001, ISBN 978-3-96456-656-0
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