The public event “Forgotten Voices: Carmen de Burgos and Women’s Emancipation in Early 20th-Century Spain” will take place on Tuesday, March 18 at 6:00 p.m. in the Multimedia Room of the Arturo Frinzi Library (Via S. Francesco 20, Verona). The meeting, featuring Stefano Bazzaco, Antonella Gallo, and Silvia Salis, will be an opportunity to discuss, together with the translators, the most interesting aspects of the life and work of Carmen de Burgos Seguí, known by the pen name “Colombine.”
Colombine was a writer, translator, journalist, and war correspondent in Spain at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was an independent and combative woman, constantly fighting for women’s rights and critical of a Spanish culture still anchored in rigid patriarchal tradition. Carmen de Burgos authored an enormous number of works, including novels, short stories, articles, biographies, etiquette manuals, and travel books.
During the event, recent translations of two of her novels will be presented:
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“The Sloping Plane,” translated by Antonella Gallo, Le Lettere, 2024
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“The Swimming Pool, the Swimming Pool,” translated by Silvia Salis, Le plurali, 2024