Ángela Valle
Ángela Valle (née Etna María de los Ángeles Valle Cerrato; January 7, 1927 - May 9, 2003) was a Honduran writer, journalist, and essayist. In 1967, she was awarded the first prize "Premio Nacional de Poesía Juan Ramón Molina".[1]
Biography
[edit]Etna María de los Ángeles Valle Cerrato was born in Comayagüela, January 7, 1927.[2] Her parents were Bernardo Valle Hernández and Ana Leonor Cerrato Salgado. In her youth, in honor of her paternal grandmother, Ángela Hernández, she adopted the pseudonym of Ángela Valle.
Valle worked as a journalist in Honduras for various newspapers, including El Día, El Cronista, and La Prensa. As a poet, she composed in a traditional way, using the sonnet or long and rhymed poems, but also using modern forms of free verse.[3] Her work has been incorporated into various anthologies of literature such as Poesía hondureña del siglo XX by Claude Couffon, 1997. She died in Tegucigalpa, May 9, 2003.[2]
Awards
[edit]- 1967, first prize, Premio Nacional de Poesía Juan Ramón Molina[4]
Selected works
[edit]- Arpegios
- Azahares
- Inicial
- La celda impropia[5]
- Las flores de mayo
- Lúnulas (Premio Nacional de Poesía Juan Ramón Molina)
- Más allá de la cruz
- Nombre para un soneto
- Pajarera de luz
- Plaqueta de la ausencia
- Sirte
References
[edit]- ^ "LOS POETAS CAPITALINOS". LA TRIBUNA (in Spanish). 14 February 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ a b "ANGELA VALLE". Asociación Nacional Escritoras Honduras (ANDEH) (in European Spanish). 22 May 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Pineda de Gálvez, Adaluz (1998). Honduras, mujer y poesía: antología de poesía hondureña escrita por mujeres, 1865-1998 (in Spanish). Guardabarranco. OCLC 39793353. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Valle, Angela (1969). Lunulas: poesias. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Definición de Honduras: Literatura - Meaning". www.lahistoriaconmapas.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.