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[13][14] Cárdenas studied art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and studio of André Lothe in Paris.[15][6]
, Cárdenas is considered to be an important and liberal writer in the field of feminist writing.In 1945, Cárdenas received the Athena Award.[4]