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  Categoría:Mujeres Josefina Rodríguez Álvarez, ( La Robla, León, March 8, 1926 – Mazcuerras, Cantabria, March 16, 2011 ), known as Josefina Aldecoa, was a Spanish writer and educator, director of the Colegio Estilo. She was married to the writer Ignacio Aldecoa, ffrom whom she adopted, after his death in 1969, his last name for her literary career.

Biography

From a family of teachers (his mother and grandmother were teachers who participated in the ideology of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, an institution that was born at the end of the 19th century with the idea of renewing education in Spain), she lived in León, where she was part of a literary group that produced the poetry magazine Espadaña . She moved to Madrid in 1944, where she studied Philosophy and Letters and received a doctorate in Pedagogy, from the University of Madrid, on the child's relationship with art, a thesis that she would later publish under the title El arte del niño (1960). During her years of study at the faculty, she came into contact with part of a group of writers who would later become part of the Generation of '50 : Carmen Martín Gaite, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Alfonso Sastre, Jesús Fernández Santos and Ignacio Aldecoa, with whom she married in 1952 and from whom she took her last name —but only after her widowhood in 1969, leaving R. de Rodríguez (Josefina R. Aldecoa)— and with whom she had a daughter, Susana. She translated for the Spanish Magazine, directed by Ignacio Aldecoa, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio and Alfonso Sastre, the first short story published in Spain by Truman Capote . In 1959 she founded the Colegio Estilo in Madrid, which was her great work for her, located in the El Viso area. She was inspired by the ideas expressed in his thesis on pedagogy, by the schools she had seen in England and the United States, and by the educational ideas of Krausism, the ideological basis of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza : "I wanted something very humanist, giving great importance to literature, letters, art; a school that was very refined culturally, very free and that did not talk about religion, things that were unthinkable in most of the centers of the country at that time". In 1961 he published the collection of short stories A nowhere . In 1969 her husband died and she stayed for 10 years in which she abandoned writing to dedicate herself to teaching, until in 1981 she published a critical edition of a selection of short stories by Ignacio Aldecoa. In Los niños de la guerra (1983) she chronicled his generation illustrated by portraits, biographies and literary comments on ten narrators who emerged in the 50s . She continued her literary activity with novels such as La enredadera (1984), Because we were young (1986) or El orchard (1988). In 1990 she began a trilogy of autobiographical content with the novel Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994) and La fuerza del destino (1997), partially in response to the political discourse during the years after the dictatorship about how rebuild the educational system, which she did not consider secular enough. In 1998 she wrote the essay Confessions of a grandmother, in which she addressed his relationship and experiences with her grandson. In 2000 she published Fiebre, an anthology of short stories written between 1950 and 1990, and in 2002 El enigma, a love-themed novel. In 2003 she obtained the Castilla y León de las Letras Award . In that same year he published En la distancia, his memoirs. In it, she not only reconstructs his memories, but also that of a lost generation of Spanish intellectuals and writers from the Civil War and the Postwar period : Ignacio Aldecoa, Luis Martín-Santos, Juan Benet, Jesús Fernández Santos, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio and Carmen Martín Gaite. . She also remembers how she became a writer by accident, through an editorial assignment, which she does not regret. The same as her trips abroad, which allowed him to survive the closed and flawed world of the first Franco regime. In 2005 she published La casa gris, a work she wrote when she was 24 years old in which he narrates, in the form of a novel starring Teresa, his life in London reflecting the difference between Spain and Europe in the 50s . In 2008 she published Hermanas, her latest novel. She died on March 16, 2011 in Mazcuerras, Cantabria, due to respiratory failure.

Works

• The Art of the Child (1960)
• Nowhere (1961)
• Children of War (1983)
• The Creeper (1984)
• Because We Were Young (1986)
• The orchard (1988)
• Story for Susana (1988)
• Story of a Teacher (1990)
• Women in Black (1994)
• Ignacio Aldecoa in his paradise (1996)
• Mirages (1996), story in Mothers and daughters . Laura Freixas (Ed. )
• The Force of Destiny (1997)
• Confessions of a Grandmother (1998)
• Pinko and her dog (1998, SM Editions
• The best (1998), story in Soccer Tales II . Jorge Valdano (Ed. )
• The rebellion (1999), a story in Women at dawn .
• The challenge (2000), story in Solidarity Stories 2 .
• Fever (2001) Editorial Anagrama
• The education of our children (2001)
• The enigma (2002) Editorial Alfaguara
• In the distance (2004)
• The Gray House (2005)
• Sisters (2008) Editorial Alfaguara.

External links

• Estilo College website
• Josefina Aldecoa in Lecturalia
• Editorial Alfaguara: Books by the writer
• Thesis Dr. Alicia Villan Rodriguez
• Josefina Aldecoa, story of a teacher in Eldiario.es
• Josefina Aldecoa. women writers day
• Video of the decision of the jury of the XI Short Narrative Prize of the UNED , chaired by Ana María Matute, and made up of Josefina Aldecoa, Jesús Munárriz, José Romera Castillo, at the Conde de Suchil hotel in Madrid, in the program broadcast on TVE- 2 (June 20, 2000): https://canal.uned.es/mmobj/index/id/9506

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