| Carmen de Alonso | |
| Birth Name: | Carmen Margarita Carrasco Barrios |
| Birth Place: | La Serena, Chile |
| Occupation: | Author |
Carmen de Alonso (1909–1993) was the pseudonym of Carmen Margarita Carrasco Barrios, a Chilean author.
Carmen Margarita Carrasco Barrios was born in La Serena. She studied in Ovalle and Santiago and was awarded the title of Profesora normalista. She worked as a teacher in Santiago and held several positions at the Biblioteca Nacional.[1]
She began to have success publishing short stories, and was a prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines, including the journal Atenea and her own column "Al Pasar" in the magazine Margarita.[1] In the 1950s she became well known for her children's story collections Medallones de sol and Medallones de luna.[2] In 1957 her story "La puebla" (later included in the 1962 collection La cita and many other anthologies) won the Mariano Latorre Prize for Folktales.[1] In the early 1960s her anthologies Érase una amapolita and La casita de cristal were also popular.[3]
Many of her stories were folktales set in Chile's northern region and touched on conditions of poverty, violence, and injustice.[1] Alonso was recognized as one of the country's most distinguished writers about rural life, and her stories were collected in many books.[4]