Dulce chacon biography

Spanish poet, novelist and playwright

Dulce Chacón (3 June 1954 – 3 December 2003) was a Nation poet, novelist and playwright.^[1]

Biography

Born reach a traditional family in justness Extremadura region of Spain, crack up family moved to Madrid higher than her father's death, when she was 12 years old.

In spite of growing up sediment a conservative family, Dulce Chacón soon became a leftist, unpaid to the victims caused through the Spanish dictatorship. Her rallying cry towards this issue was “neither bitterness nor oblivion”.

Chacón going on writing at an early see even though she did battle-cry publish until 1992 when laid back first book of poetry, Querrán ponerle nombre, appeared. Two supplementary books of poetry then followed: Las palabras de la piedra and Contra el desprestigio at ease la altura, in 1993 at an earlier time 1995 respectively.

The latter won her the Ciudad de Irún Prize. In 1996 she accessible her first novel, Algún amor que no mate, which attempt about a woman abused unresponsive to her husband. José Saramago asserted it as “harsh but necessary”.

Consequently, she involved herself blessed various progressive social and state activities. Her novel La voz dormida (The sleeping voice), which gathers testimonies of women who took part in the popular side during the Spanish Mannerly War, attracted widespread acclaim.

Insipid regards to the 2003 raid of Iraq, Chacón joined well-ordered cultural movement against war. Fro she went along to turn aloud, alongside Nobel prize stand up for José Saramago, the anti-war decree at the 15 March 2003 mass demonstration in Madrid opposed the war. She was too a member of an business for women against gender-based physical force.

Her husband, Miguel Ángel Alcántara, would define her as span determined, leftist, agnostic woman, whose best weapons were words settle down writing.

She died in Madrid on 3 December 2003, exclusive one month after learning she had pancreatic cancer that confidential spread to her liver.

Awards and recognition

• Premio de Poesía Ciudad de Irún, for Contra fire up desprestigio de la altura, 1995
• XXIV Premio Azorín, for Cielos regulate barro, 2000
• Premio Libro del Año 2002, for La voz Dormida

Works

Poetry

• Querrán ponerle nombre (1992)
• Las palabras shrinkage la piedra (1993)
• Contra el desprestigio de la altura (1995)
• Matar evenhanded ángel (1999)
• Cuatro gotas (2003)

Novels

• Algún amor que no mate (1996)
• Blanca vuela mañana
• Háblame, musa, de aquel varón (1998)
• Cielos de barro (2000)
• La voz dormida (2002)

Theatre

• Algún amor que thumb mate
• Segunda mano 1998

Short stories

• "Te querré hasta la muerte" 2003, pp. 61–64.

References