Elisa Mújica Explained

Elisa Mújica
Birth Name:Elisa Mújica Velásquez
Birth Date:1918 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Bucaramanga, Colombia
Death Place:Bogotá, Colombia
Nationality:Colombian
Genre:Novel, short story
Language:Spanish
Occupation:Writer, poet

Elisa Mújica Velásquez (21 January, 1918 – 27 March, 2003) was a Colombian writer. She published novels, short stories, essays, books for children as well as interviews, book reviews and columns for local newspapers El Tiempo and El Espectador. She was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua and the Real Academia Española. In 2018 the award Premio Nacional de Narrativa Elisa Mújica was created in order to recognize the work of unpublished female authors and to honor her 100th birth anniversary.[1]

Career

She worked as an assistant at the Ministry of Communications. Later, between 1936 and 1943, she worked as the personal secretary of future President of Colombia Carlos Lleras Restrepo.[2] During these days, she was close to the Grupo Bachué, one of the most important artistic avant-garde movements in Colombia. Later, she worked at the Quito Embassy between 1943 and 1945. She published her novel Los dos tiempos in 1949. She lived in Spain in the 1950s and was an influence to her niece, the poet and journalist María Mercedes Carranza.[3] In Ecuador she had met members from El grupo de Guayaquil and become a supporter of marxism and communism.[4] However, she was also interested in figures such as Sor Teresa de Jesús and Sor Francisca Josefa del Castillo. In 1964 she wrote the essay La aventura demorada. Ensayo sobre santa Teresa de Jesús. She also received a special recognition by the Premio Esso for her novel Catalina in 1962.[5] In the 1980s, Mújica was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua and the Real Academia Española.[6]

Published works

Novels

Essays

Short stories

Children's literature

Autobiography

Criticism

Awards and recognition

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: September 27, 2018. Cristina Bendek gana el premio ‘Elisa Mújica’. La Opinión.
  2. Web site: Amaya Méndez. Nelly Rocío. 2001. Elisa Mújica: verdadera vocación por la escritura. live. publicaciones.banrepcultural.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20180420021026/https://publicaciones.banrepcultural.org/index.php/boletin_cultural/article/view/1275/1282 . 20 April 2018 .
  3. Book: Jáuregui, Carlos. Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. 2000. Tompkins. Cynthia Margarita. Westport, Connecticut. 71–76. María Mercedes Carranza. Foster. David William.
  4. Web site: Elisa Mújica. live. Banrepcultural. https://web.archive.org/web/20211112195445/https://enciclopedia.banrepcultural.org/index.php/Elisa_M%C3%BAjica . 12 November 2021 .
  5. Web site: Quintana. Pilar. ¿Por qué nadie me habló de Elisa Mújica?. live. Diario de paz Colombia. https://web.archive.org/web/20210514203112/https://diariodepaz.com/2021/05/01/elisa-mujica-descrita-por-pilar-quintana-a-proposito-de-la-novela-catalina/ . 14 May 2021 .
  6. Book: Ballesteros Rosas, Luisa . La escritora en la sociedad latinoamericana . The woman writer in Latin American society . . 252 . 9789586701143 . Spanish . 1997.
  7. Narrar la violencia con voz femenina: Elisa Mújica, Albalucía Ángel y Laura Restrepo . Narrating La Violencia with a feminine voice: Elisa Mújica, Albalucía Ángel, and Laura Restrepo . Silva . Yamile . Estudios de Literatura Colombiana . 21 . 57–72 . Spanish . July–December 2007 . 6 October 2016.
  8. Book: Schultze-Kraft, Markus . Pacificación y poder civil en Centroamérica . Escritoras de Colombia . Women Writers of Colombia . Pacification and civil power in Central America . . 90 . Spanish . 9789580489528 . 1 January 2005 . 6 October 2016.

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