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María Luisa Artecona de Thompson

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María Luisa Artecona de Thompson
Born(1919-07-12)12 July 1919
Guarambaré, Paraguay
Died10 December 2003(2003-12-10) (aged 84)
Asunción, Paraguay

María Luisa Artecona de Thompson (12 July 1919 – 10 December 2003) was a Paraguayan poet and playwright. She was known for her work for children and in particular her anthology of writing for Paraguayan children.

Life

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Thompson was born in Guarambaré in 1919. Her parents were Guillermo Artecona and Maria Cardenas. She went to the local Goethe School.[1] She graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción.[2]

Her 1965 work Guarambaré won the Donsel prize which noted not only the quality but the impressive quantity of her work.[3]

She was the Professor holding the chair for literature at Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic University.[2]

In 1992 she published her Anthology of Infantile-Juvenile Literature from Paraguay.[3] She was recognised outside Paraguay as a writer for children.[4] In the same year she published three works with themes involving puppets El titiritero (The Puppeteer), La hojita de papel (The Little Sheet of Paper) and El vigilante y el ladrón (The Guard and the Robber).

She was an advisor to the Department of Higher Education and Cultural Diffusion of the Ministry of Education and Worship.[5]

Thompson died on 10 December 2003 in Asunción.[5]

Works include

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  • The Heroic Dream (1963)
  • Song to Sleep a Rose (1964)
  • Guarambaré (1965)
  • Letters to the Sun Lord (1966)[3]
  • El Canto a Oscuras (Song in the Dark)[6]
  • El titiritero (The Puppeteer, 1992)
  • La hojita de papel (The Little Sheet of Paper, 1992)
  • El vigilante y el ladrón (The Guard and the Robber)
  • L’Anthologie de la littérature de jeunesse paraguayenne (Anthology of Literature for Young Paraguayans, 1992)[3]

Private life

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She married Roberto Thompson Molinas and they had four children, Roberto, Hugo, Jacqueline and Monica. Her ex-husband died a year later; he had married again and had been living with his new wife in the United States for twenty years.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Falleció la poetisa María Luisa Artecona - Espectáculos - ABC Color". www.abc.com.py (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b "María Luisa Artecona de Thompson". World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Artecona de Thompson, María Luisa (1927-VVVV). » MCNBiografias.com". www.mcnbiografias.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  4. ^ Hunt, Peter (2 August 2004). International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-43684-2.
  5. ^ a b "Centenario de María Luisa Artecona de Thompson". La Nacion (in Spanish). 15 July 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  6. ^ Cervantes, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de. "Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes". Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Nota A Esta Edición", Para decir al Otro, Frankfurt a. M., Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, pp. 15–16, 31 December 2016, doi:10.31819/9783964566560-001, ISBN 978-3-96456-656-0
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