Carmen Abellan

August 15, 1907 (age 88)

Cartagena, Region of Murcia, Spain

She was also the first woman to become number academic of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech on 1979. At the age of 6 she moved with her family to Melilla, where she lived until 1920. The memoir from that period were collected in Empezando la vida. In 1923 she passed the competitive exam for Auxiliary at the Drafting Room of the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, where she started to work. She began her contributions to local newspapers one year later. At the age of 19 she started her studies in Education at the Escuela Normal de Maestras de Murcia. In 1927 she met the Spanish poet Antonio Oliver Belmás, formalizing their relationship. She wrote in Ley: (entregas de capricho) and also in Obra en marcha: diario poético in 1928, both magazines published by Juan Ramón Jiménez for a minority audience. In 1933 they both created the magazine Presencia, a body at this institution. The University had an adults" library, children"s library as well as educational cinema, and it organized events such as conference programs, art exhibitions, et cetera lieutenant was supported by the Patronato de Misiones Pedagógicas. In 1934 Carmen Conde published Júbilos, prologued by Gabriela Mistral and illustrated by Norah Borges. She worked as Inspector-Monitor of Studies at El Pardo Orphanage, until she resigned in 1935. Over this year, the couple contributed to national newspapers like El Sol, as well as to other Spanish American serial publications. 2. Carmen followed him through several Andalusian cities, but she came back to Cartagena to look after her mother. The Civil War outbreak forced them in July 1936 to give up the invitation from Gabriela Mistral (by then Consul of Chile in Lisboa), before traveling to France and Belgium, to study folklore institutions in those countries, for which she had obtained a grant. Likewise, she attended courses at the Faculty of Letters in Valencia, passing the competitive exam for Librarian, although she never practiced. Carmen settled in San Lorenzo de El Escorial at the Alcázar"s, friends of hers, until 1941. In 1941, she returned to Madrid, where she lived the remainder of her years. Her husband Anontio Oliver died on July 28, 1968. She spent the last years of her life, between 1992 and 1996, living in an old people"s residency in Majadahonda (Madrid).

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In 1929 she wrote her fourth work, Brocal, and she finished her Education studies at the Escuela Normal de Albacete in 1930.

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She was also the first woman to become number academic of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech on 1979. At the age of 6 she moved with her family to Melilla, where she lived until 1920. The memoir from that period were collected in Empezando la vida.

In 1923 she passed the competitive exam for Auxiliary at the Drafting Room of the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, where she started to work.

She began her contributions to local newspapers one year later. At the age of 19 she started her studies in Education at the Escuela Normal de Maestras de Murcia.

In 1927 she met the Spanish poet Antonio Oliver Belmás, formalizing their relationship. She wrote in Ley: (entregas de capricho) and also in Obra en marcha: diario poético in 1928, both magazines published by Juan Ramón Jiménez for a minority audience.

In 1933 they both created the magazine Presencia, a body at this institution.

The University had an adults" library, children"s library as well as educational cinema, and it organized events such as conference programs, art exhibitions, et cetera lieutenant was supported by the Patronato de Misiones Pedagógicas. In 1934 Carmen Conde published Júbilos, prologued by Gabriela Mistral and illustrated by Norah Borges.

She worked as Inspector-Monitor of Studies at El Pardo Orphanage, until she resigned in 1935.

Over this year, the couple contributed to national newspapers like El Sol, as well as to other Spanish American serial publications. 2. Carmen followed him through several Andalusian cities, but she came back to Cartagena to look after her mother.

The Civil War outbreak forced them in July 1936 to give up the invitation from Gabriela Mistral (by then Consul of Chile in Lisboa), before traveling to France and Belgium, to study folklore institutions in those countries, for which she had obtained a grant. Likewise, she attended courses at the Faculty of Letters in Valencia, passing the competitive exam for Librarian, although she never practiced.

Carmen settled in San Lorenzo de El Escorial at the Alcázar"s, friends of hers, until 1941.

In 1941, she returned to Madrid, where she lived the remainder of her years. Her husband Anontio Oliver died on July 28, 1968. She spent the last years of her life, between 1992 and 1996, living in an old people"s residency in Majadahonda (Madrid).

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Real Academia Española]

on January 28, 1979, she was elected as numeric member of the Real Academia Española, taking the "k" seat, and delivering her induction speech entitled "Poesía ante el tiempo y la inmortalidad".

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