Carmen Martin Gaite

Catherine O'Leary (University of St Andrews)

Ed. by Stuart Green, University of Leeds, Duncan Wheeler, University of Leeds
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.02: Spanish Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary, 1700-present.
Vol. editors: Santiago Bertrán (University of Oxford), Isabel Berzal Ayuso (Universidad de Alcala de Henares), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

Dates

Born 8 Dec 1925
Died 22 Jun 2000
Activity 1957-2000

Places

Born in Spain
Active in Spain

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Essayist
Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Gaite's Works

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Known to many as Carmiña, Carmen Martín Gaite was one of the most important and socially engaged female authors of twentieth-century Spain. Although she is often associated with the group of Spanish writers known as “The Realist Generation”, she experimented with other genres and forms over the course of her lengthy career. She was prolific, and penned novels, short stories, poetry, plays, children’s literature, film scripts and essays, in addition to academic and historical works and translations of works by authors such as Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Brönte and C.S Lewis. Despite this range of genres, there is a consistency of subject matter and style in Martín Gaite’s work. Pervasive themes include time, memory and past ties; the roles of…

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Citation: O'Leary, Catherine. "Carmen Martin Gaite". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 April 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12934, accessed 25 November 2024.]