Carmen Conde (1907-1996) lived and worked in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War while her husband served at the front line. Her third collection of poetry, While the Men are Dying was written in Valencia as bombs fell, her city endured privation and her country was being torn apart. When the war ended, a known pro-Republican intellectual, she went into hiding and was forced to write under pseudonyms to make a living. These prose poems which describe the full horror of the impact of war on a civilian population and which empathise deeply with the sacrifice of the young men at the...
Carmen Conde (1907-1996) lived and worked in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War while her husband served at the front line. Her third co...
Carmen Conde was born in 1907 in Cartagena (Murcia) where, with the exception of seven years in Melilla, she lived until 1936. At the end of the Spanish Civil War she moved to Madrid. For many years she was a professor of Spanish Poetry and Contemporary Spanish Novel at the Institute of European Studies (an affiliate of the University of Chicago) in Madrid. Also a professor of the University of Valencia. She has been awarded the following literary prizes: Elisenda Moncada, Internacional de Poesía; Premio Nacional de Poesía Española and the Premio de Novela Ateneo de Sevilla /1980). In 1978...
Carmen Conde was born in 1907 in Cartagena (Murcia) where, with the exception of seven years in Melilla, she lived until 1936. At the end of the Spani...
