Fanny Buitrago
Fanny Buitrago | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1943-5 Barranquilla, Colombia |
| Occupation | Writer and playwright |
| Genre | |
| Notable works | Señora de la miel |
Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian fiction writer and playwright best known for her novel Señora de la miel. She was born in Barranquilla, Colombia between 1943 and 1945.
Early life
[edit]Fanny Buitrago was born in Barranquilla, Colombia between 1943 and 1945,[1] and grew up in Cali.[2] Her father Luis Buitrago was from Tunja, and her mother was from Barranquilla.[3] Buitrago has a sister Letty, who has worked as her editor and literary agent, and a brother Luis.[4] According to Letty, Fanny "began to read and write at a very early age, under the influence of two indefatigable readers: her father, Luis Buitrago, and her maternal grandfather, Tomás González".[3] As a child she would invent stories for her siblings in exchange for money or chores; around the age of 8 or 9, she started writing stories by hand.[4]
Literary career
[edit]Buitrago's best-known book is Señora de la miel (Señora Honeycomb or Mrs Honeycomb; translated into English in 1996).[5] Her first novel was El hostigante verano de los dioses (The Tormenting Summer of the Gods; 1963).
In 1982, Buitrago was an award fellow of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm in Berlin.[6] In 1984 she was a writer in residence at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.[7]
Themes
[edit]She generally avoids overt political messages, although she has dealt with the civil unrest of la Violencia, preferring to focus on broken homes and families which act as metaphors for a country suffering great upheaval.[8] Her works have been associated with the Nadaísmo movement in Colombia.
Works
[edit]Novels
[edit]- El hostigante verano de los dioses (1963)
- Cola de zorro (1970)
- Los Pañamanes (1979)
- Señora de la miel (1993); English translation: Señora honeycomb (1996)
- Bello animal (2002)
- El legado de Corín Tellado (2008)
- En torno al frenesí (2020)
Short story collections
[edit]- Las distancias doradas (1964)
- La otra gente (1973)
- Bahía sonora: relatos de la isla (1975)
- Los amores de Afrodita: cuatro cuentos y una novela breve (1983)
- Los fusilados de ayer (1987)
- ¡Líbranos de todo mal! (1989)
- Los encantamientos (2003)
- Canciones profanas (2011)
Plays
[edit]- El hombre de paja (1964)
- A la diestra y a la siniestra (1987)
- Al final del ave María (1991)
- El día de la boda (2005)
Literature for children
[edit]- La casa del abuelo (1979)
- La casa del arco iris: una novela de la infancia (1986)
- Cartas del palomar (1988)
- La casa del verde doncel (1990)
- Historias de la Rosa Luna (2008)
- Un genio en la pantalla (2013)
- Los cuentos de Juanita Campana (2019)
Awards
[edit]In 1964, she won the Cali Theater Festival Prize for her play El hombre de paja (Scarecrow).[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nacida entre 1943 y 1945, la fecha oscila dependiendo de la fuente y la escritora misma prefiere no precisarla", footnote p471, Celis, Nadia (April–September 2016). "Tras medio siglo de El Hostigante Verano de los Dioses: Fanny Buitrago y la "autenticidad" caribe". Revista Iberoamericana (in Spanish). 82 (255–256): 471–486. doi:10.5195/reviberoamer.2016.7401.
- ^ Williams, Raymond Leslie (2007). "Buitrago, Fanny [Biography]". The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 136–137. doi:10.7312/will12688. ISBN 978-0-231-12688-5.
- ^ a b Buitrago, Letty (1994). "Fanny Buitrago". In Calderón Schrader, Camilo (ed.). Gran Enciclopedia de Colombia 9 Biografías (in Spanish). Vol. 1 Abad–Lemaitre. Bogotá, Colombia: Círculo de Lectores. pp. 96–97. ISBN 958-28-0294-4.
- ^ a b Celis, Nadia (July–December 2014). "La magia de contar historias: Fanny Buitrago, en conversación con Nadia Celis Salgado". Revista de Estudios Colombianos (in Spanish). 44: 48–52.
- ^ "Senora Honeycomb (Review)". Publishers Weekly. 1996-01-29. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
- ^ Borsche, Dahlia; Fehrmann, Silvia, eds. (November 2022). Jahrbuch 2022 (PDF). Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. p. 108.
- ^ "Colombian residents | International Writing Program". Iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ a b Smith, Verity (1997). Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 152–153. ISBN 9780203304365.
