Carmen Martin Gaite
| Carmen Martín Gaite | |
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| Born |
8 December 1925 Salamanca, Spain |
| Died | 23 July 2000 (aged 74) Madrid, Spain |
| Spouse(s) | Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio |
| Era | 20th-century |
Carmen Martín Gaite (8 December 1925 – 23 July 2000) was an award winning Spanish author. She wrote in many genres, including novels, short stories, and essays. She also wrote screenplays.
Born in Salamanca, over the course of her life she won various awards, including the Prince of Asturias Awards in 1988, the Award Premio Castilla y León de las Letras in 1992, and the Premio Acebo de Honor awarded to her life work.
She was married to fellow writer Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio.
Carmen was the second daughter in the marriage of José Martín López (Valladolid, 1885) and María Gaite Veloso (Orense, 1894), who got married in 1923. Her parents had met in Salamanca, where her father worked as a notary. Her maternal grandparents were from Orense and her mother was also born in this province of Spain. Her grandfather was a professor of geography and her great uncle founded the Ateneo of Orense and was a director and a publisher of the newspaper called El Orensano. The family used to spend summers on the farm of her grandparents in San Lorenzo de Piñor (Barbadás), five kilometers away from Orense. These trips were the base of her connection with Galicia and its culture. It encouraged her to write some of her works, such as Las ataduras and Retahílas.
Carmen was born and grew up in the city of Salamanca. As a child, she did not attend to any school because her father, who had liberal ideas, did not want her to be educated in a religious institute. That is why she had private classes at home given by private teachers and her father, who was fascinated by the history and the literature.
The start of the Spanish Civil War stopped Carmen from attending the last two years of High School in the School Institute of Madrid, as her sister Ana had done before, so she had to do her secondary education in the Women's School Institute of Salamanca, whose environment is reflected in her novel, Entre visillos. There, she was taught by Rafael Lapesa and Salvador Fernández Ramírez. They would be future members of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy) and would leave a mark in her literary vocation.
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