Luz de Viana | |
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Born | Marta Villanueva Cárdenas 25 December 1900 Santiago |
Died | 1995 (aged 95) Santiago |
Pen name | Luz de Viana (writer)
[1] Marta Villanueva (painter) [2] |
Nationality | Chilean |
Genre | Novels and short stories [3] |
Years active | 1945–95 |
Notable awards | Athena Award (1945) [4] |
Spouse | Alfonso Bulnes Calvo [5] |
Marta Villanueva Cárdenas, known by her pseudonyms Luz de Viana and Marta Villanueva, (b. 25 December 1900 – d. 1995) [6] was a Chilean writer and painter. [7] She specialized in novels and short stories. [3]
Marta Villanueva Cárdenas was born in Santiago, Chile. Her first published work was No sirve la Luna blanca (1945), [8] for which she won the Athena Award from the University of Concepción. [9] She is assigned to the "School of Subjectivity" of feminine literature in Chile and of contemporary Chilean writers. [10] As a painter, under the pseudonym Marta Villanueva, [2] she is included in the Grupo Montparnasse. [11] Her husband was Alfonso Bulnes Calvo (1885–1970), Chilean historian, essayist and diplomat. [5] [6] She died in Santiago. [12]
Along with María Carolina Geel , Cárdenas is considered to be an important and liberal writer in the field of feminist writing. [13] [14] Cárdenas studied art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and studio of André Lothe in Paris. [15] [6]
In 1945, Cárdenas received the Athena Award. [4]