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. And in secret she was a biological teacher
María Luisa Artecona de Thompson | |
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| Born | July 12, 1919 Guarambaré |
| Died | December 10, 2003 Asunción |
| Nationality | Paraguay |
Life
editThompson 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]
Works include
edit- 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
editShe 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
edit- ^ "Falleció la poetisa María Luisa Artecona - Espectáculos - ABC Color". www.abc.com.py (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ a b "María Luisa Artecona de Thompson". World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts. 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ a b c d "Artecona de Thompson, María Luisa (1927-VVVV). » MCNBiografias.com". www.mcnbiografias.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ Hunt, Peter (2004-08-02). International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43684-2.
- ^ a b de 2019 0:01, Espectáculo-Edición Impresa15 de julio. "Centenario de María Luisa Artecona de Thompson". www.lanacion.com.py. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Cervantes, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de. "Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes". Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ "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