Luz de Viana

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Villanueva and the second or maternal family name is Cárdenas.
Luz de Viana
BornMarta Villanueva Cárdenas
25 December 1900
Santiago
Died1995 (aged 95)
Santiago
Pen nameLuz de Viana (writer)[1]
Marta Villanueva (painter)[2]
NationalityChilean
GenreNovels and short stories[3]
Years active1945–95
Notable awardsAthena Award (1945)[4]
SpouseAlfonso Bulnes Calvo[5]

Marta Villanueva Cárdenas, known by her pseudonyms Luz de Viana and Marta Villanueva, (b. 25 December 1900 – d. 1995)[6] was a Chilean writer and painter.[7] She specialized in novels and short stories.[3]

Biography

Marta Villanueva Cárdenas was born in Santiago, Chile. Her first published work was No sirve la Luna blanca (1945),[8] for which she won the Athena Award from the University of Concepción.[9] She is assigned to the "School of Subjectivity" of feminine literature in Chile and of contemporary Chilean writers.[10] As a painter, under the pseudonym Marta Villanueva,[2] she is included in the Grupo Montparnasse.[11] Her husband was Alfonso Bulnes Calvo (1885–1970), Chilean historian, essayist and diplomat.[5][6] She died in Santiago.[12]

Along with María Carolina Geel [es], Cárdenas is considered to be an important and liberal writer in the field of feminist writing.[13][14] Cárdenas studied art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and studio of André Lothe in Paris.[15][6]

In 1945, Cárdenas received the Athena Award.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ Guerrero, Leoncio (July 1963). "La Novela Reciente en Chile". Journal of Inter-American Studies. 5 (3): 379–395. doi:10.2307/165133. JSTOR 165133.
  2. ^ a b Sánchez Latorre 1966, p. 343.
  3. ^ a b "Luz de Viana" (PDF). El Cronista (in Spanish). M.C.G. 12 June 1977. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Lista de Galardonados años anteriores". selloeditorial.udec.cl. University of Concepcion. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. ^ a b Plath, Oreste. "Autores casados con autoras". escritores.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  6. ^ a b c "Marta Villanueva (1900–1995)". artistasplasticoschilenos.cl (in Spanish). Biblioteca Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  7. ^ Lamperein, Vieira & Molina 2008, p. 391.
  8. ^ Oyarzún 2005, p. 454.
  9. ^ Walsh, Donald Devenish (February 1947). "Spanish American Literature in 1946". Hispania. 30 (1): 20–26. doi:10.2307/334066. JSTOR 334066.
  10. ^ Orozco Vera, María Jesús (1966). "La narrativa femenina chilena (1923–1980)". Cauce: Revista de filología y su didáctica (in Spanish) (16): 295–319. ISSN 0212-0410.
  11. ^ Romera 1976.
  12. ^ "Marta Villanueva". artistasvisualeschilenos.cl. Museo Nacional Bellas Artes. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  13. ^ Rojas Piña & Pinto Villarroel 1999.
  14. ^ Poblete Alday, Patricia; Rivera Aravena, Carla (2003). "El Feminismo Aristocrático: violencia simbólica y ruptura soterrada a comienzos del siglo XX". Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades (7): 57–79.
  15. ^ Bindis 2006, p. 388.

References

  • Bindis, Ricardo (2006). Pintura chilena, 200 años: despertar, maestros, vanguardias. ORIGO. ISBN 978-95-6807-734-1.
  • Lamperein, Vera; Vieira, Ana María; Molina, Paz (2008). Presencia femenina en la literatura nacional: una trayectoria apasionante, 1750-2005 (in Spanish). Editorial Semejanza. ISBN 978-95-6759-046-9.
  • Oyarzún, Luis (2005). Taken for a Ride: Escritura de Paso. RIL Editores. ISBN 978-95-6284-477-2.
  • Rojas Piña, Benjamín; Pinto Villarroel, Patricia (1999). Escritoras Chilenas: Novela y cuento. Editorial Cuarto Propio. ISBN 978-95-6260-162-7.
  • Romera, Antonio (1976). Historia de la pintura chilena (PDF). Editorial Andrés Bello. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  • Sánchez Latorre, Luis (1966). Memorabilia: Impresiones y Recuerdos. Lom Ediciones. ISBN 978-95-6282-221-3.