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Elisa Mújica
Colombian writer and poet

Elisa Mújica

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Colombian writer and poet
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Place of birth
Bucaramanga, Colombia
Place of death
Bogota, Colombia
Age
85 years
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Biography

Elisa Mújica Velásquez (21 January 1918 – 27 March 2003) was a Colombian writer.

Career

Beginning in the 1980s, Mújica was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua and Real Academia Española.

She worked in newspapers and magazines, publishing commentaries and book reviews in El Tiempo and El Espectador.

Her works are tied to Colombia, and tell stories from a social point of view. She was also devoted to children's literature.

She lived in Spain in the 1950s and was an influence to her niece, the poet and journalist María Mercedes Carranza.

Published works

Novels

  • Los dos tiempos, 1949
  • Catalina, 1963
  • Bogotá de las nubes, 1984

Essays

  • El Indio en América: síntesis de obras americanas sobre el problema indígena, 1948
  • La aventura demorada: ensayo sobre santa Teresa de Jesús, 1951
  • La Candelaria, 1974
  • Introducción a Santa Teresa, 1981
  • Las altas torres del humo: raíces del cuento popular en Colombia, 1985
  • Sor Francisca Josefa de Castillo, 1991

Short stories

  • Ángela y el diablo, 1953
  • Árbol de ruedas, 1972
    • "Prólogo"; "La Montaña"; "Las reclusas"; "La biblioteca"; "La acacia"; "El visitante"; "El espejo y el rubí"; "El aeropuerto"; "La palmera"; "La perla"; "El documento"; "La silla giratoria"; "El retrato"
  • La tienda de las imágenes, 1987
  • Cuentos, 2009

Children's literature

  • La Expedición Botánica contada a los niños, 1978
  • Bestiario, 1980
  • Pequeño Bestiario, 1990
  • Las casas que hablan: guía histórica del barrio de la Candelaria de Santa Fé de Bogotá, 1994
  • Cuentos para niños de La Candelaria, 1997

Autobiography

  • Diario: 1968–1971, 2008

Criticism

  • Reminiscencias de Santafé de Bogotá, de José María Cordovez Moure, Aguilar, 1957

Awards and recognition

  • "Tribute of admiration" from the jury of the 1962 Esso Literature Prize, for her novel Catalina
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