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]

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]

Biography

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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

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  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. Retrieved 14 March 2013.[permanent dead link]
  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

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  • 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.