María Elvira Lacaci
María Elvira Lacaci Morris (1916–1997) was a Spanish Galician poet. She was the first woman to win the Premio Adonáis de Poesía.
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María Elvira Lacaci
- Name
- María Elvira Lacaci
- Birth Name
- María Elvira Lacaci Morris
- Born
- 1916
- Birthplace
- Ferrol, Spain
- Died
- 9 March 1997
- Place of death
- Madrid, Spain
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- writer · poet
- Honours
- Premio Adonáis de Poesía · Premio de la Crítica de poesía castellana
- Languages
- Spanish
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• Name — María Elvira Lacaci • Birth Name — María Elvira Lacaci Morris • Born — 1916 • Birthplace — Ferrol, Spain • Died — 9 March 1997 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain
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María Elvira Lacaci lived from 1916 to 1997 and was a writer. María Elvira Lacaci was born in 1916 in Ferrol.
Biography
Biography
Lacaci was born in Ferrol in Galicia to a family of mariners. She was married to the novelist Miguel Buñuel. In 1952, she took up residence in Madrid and began writing and publishing poetry. Lacaci received a somewhat limited literary education which may have contributed to the intuitiveness of her writing. Much of Lacaci's poetry is based on personal and subjective experiences. Despite her grouping with social realism poets of the 1950s, much of her writing centres on religious themes and is devoutly Christian in tone. Her first published poetry collection, Humana Voz (1957, Human Voice) contrasts urban scenes with the presence of a benevolent God. Another of Lacaci's works, Sonido de Dios (1962, The Sound of God), explores the poetic persona's relationship with God. Lacaci died in her residence in Madrid on 9 March 1997.
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María Elvira Lacaci died in 1997 in Madrid.
Poetry
Poetry
• Humana voz (1957) • Sonido de Dios (1962) • Al este de la ciudad (1963) • Molinillo de papel (1967) • Tom y Jim (1966) • El rey Baltasar (1965) • Molinillos de papel (1967)
Stories
Stories
• La instancia (1967) • Pequeño bazar
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Ferrol.
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Madrid.
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Awards and honours
Lacaci won the Adonais Prize in 1956 (the first woman to receive it) for Voz humana (1957, Human Voice) and the Premio de la Crítica de poesía castellana in 1964.
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- 1.Garland Publishing. An Encyclopedia of continental women writers. 2. 682. 1991. 0-8240-8547-7.
- 2.Greenwood Press. Women writers of Spain : an annotated bio-bibliographical guide. 160. 1986. 0-313-24965-2.
- 3.Greenwood Press. Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula. L-Z. 908. 1993. 0-313-28732-5.
- 4.Poesía Española Contemporánea - María Elvira Lacaci (1916-1997).
- 5.Fallece en Madrid a los 81 años la poetisa María Elvira Lacaci. El País. 1997-03-10.
- 6.R. R. Bowker. Foreign literary prizes, Romance and Germanic languages. 197, 207. 1980. 0-8352-1243-2.
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