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Colombia's female writers of 20th century

 

Marvel Moreno

 

Marvel Luz Moreno Abello was born on September 23, 1939 in the aristocratic neighborhood of El Prado de Barranquilla, main River and sea port on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. It belongs to a family of gentry in dramatic economic decline but able to maintain social appearances. Her mother, Berta Abello Falquez, descended from an old family of rancid aristocracy who counts among his ancestors an admiral of the Spanish navies, a governor and a renowned mayor of Barranquilla.

Her father, Benjamin Moreno, descended from a family of good bourgeoisie of Cartagena de Indias, cultural blend with Dutch Jews and Caribbean Indians, was a popular city attorney. In October 1939 she is baptized with the Catholic rite. Two years after her only brother born Ronald Eduardo. Grows up in an almost exclusively female environment and early education was received from his maternal grandmother, capital Marvel character's life she inculcated from childhood curiosity to knowledge and to the need to conquer their personal independence.

 

Marvel Moreno, one of the great authors of the twentieth century literature in Colombia, gave up at age 30 to live in the country and the city where she was born, to settle permanently in Paris. There she could realize her desire to devote himself entirely to writing, taking great sacrifices in the midst of serious health breaks. In her 

fiction builds poetic memory and suffered an intimate world of women in patriarchal societies still retain pre modern practices. Outside her country she wanted never to return, outside the Latin American boom and vanguards that were in decline, his craft as a writer spent in a great loneliness.

 

In Colombia her first book of stories, Algo tan feo en la vida de una señora bien, launched in 1981 by the newly established publishing Pluma, had very poor distribution. This book, entitled tache Cette femme dans la vie comme il faut d'une, was published by Editions des femmes in 1983. in French translation of Jacques Gilard. In 1984 Fina Torres film based on the Oriana story in this collection, made by a Colombian-Venezuelan co-production, received the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year the film competed in the XXV Cartagena Film Festival, where it won the Grand Silver Jubilee Award and Best Screenplay.

 

Marvel Moreno died in Paris, away from the city that inspired her narrative, on the morning of June 5, 1995. His death at the age of 56 years was due to heart failure caused by an aggravated emphysema, after fighting many years against autoimmune disease, diagnosed as lupus. The accompanying at the time of his death in her apartment in the Rue des Couronnes her second husband Jacques Fourrier, who provided security for a life in emotional and intellectually stable partner. In this last house, in the 20th district, a neighborhood of immigrants from Arab and Afro-descendants, spent the last six years, writing until the day before his death (Gilard 1997, 258).

 

Twenty years ago, on her first trip to Europe, had come to Paris to reconcile with her first husband Apuleius Plinio Mendoza after separation in Barranquilla. From the first moment of her arrival she decided to settle there to never more return to Colombia. She managed to publish in life, amid very poor health, with a disease that became chronic, two books of short stories and a novel. At her death left a third collection of stories that appeared posthumously in the edition of her complete short stories, with the name of Las fiebres del Miramar and a novel in manuscript, El tiempo de las amazonas, unpublished until today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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