Female writers and female film directors.
FEMALE WRITERS.
ROSALÍA DE CASTRO Rosalía de Castro y Abadía (Santiago de Compostela, February 24, 1837 - Padrón, La Coruña, July 15, 1885) was a poet and novelist in Galician and Spanish. It is the central figure of the Rexurdimento of Galician literature in the nineteenth century, author of Cantares gallegos (1863), a founding work of this one, since it is one of the first books written entirely in Galician of contemporary age. After the romanticism of La flor (1857) and sentimentalism of A mi madre (1863, written after the death of his mother), the publication of Cantares gallegos in 1863 is a cultural event of the first class in the literary landscape in language Galician.
CONCHA ESPINA María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, known as Concha Espina (Santander, April 15, 1879 - Madrid, May 19, 1955) was a Spanish writer. In 1909, she made the first novel, titled La niña Luzmela. In 1913 she published La esfinge maragata, considered her masterpiece and awarded by the Spanish Academy. She continued writing novels, such as The rose of the winds of 1915, The metal of the dead of 1920 and, in 1926, the major altar work that was received by the National Prize for Literature. She was also the author of short stories and the play El jayón (1919).
CARMEN DE BURGOS Carmen de Burgos y Seguí - also known by the pseudonym of Colombine- [1] [2] (Rodalquilar, locality of the municipality of Níjar, in the province of Almería. December 10, 1867 - Madrid, October 9, 1932) [2] was a journalist, writer, translator and activist of the rights of Spanish women. She is considered the first professional journalist in Spain and in the Spanish language as editor of Madrid's Diario Universal in 1906, a newspaper directed by Augusto Figueroa. She also signed with pseudonyms such as Gabriel Luna, Perico the Palotes, Raquel, Honorine and Marianela.
KALLIROI PARREN Kallirroi Siganou Parren, teacher and journalist, (1861- 1940) was one of the earliest proponents of feminism in Greece. Born in Rethymnon, Crete, she moved to Athens and studied to become a Primary school teacher. She was multilingual and she also worked in Odessa in all girls school, within the Greek community. In 1887 she published Ladies Journal (Εφημερίς των Κυριών) and she fought for women’s right to vote, which she advocated in her Journal for Ladies. One of the greatest figures in the Greek feminist movement, she will always be remembered.
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DIDO SOTIRIOU Dido Sotiriou (1909- 2004) was a Greek novelist, journalist and playwright. She was a prolific writer, but most likely, most people know her for her great book Farewell Anatolia (1962). In it, she describes, using the first person narrative technique, the memories of a Minor Asia farmer, Manolis Axiotis, who lived the events of Greek-Turkish population exchange and the expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922.
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FEMALE FILM DIRECTORS.
SOFIA EXARCHOU Exarchou won the New Directors Award in San Sebastiรกn 2016 with his debut album, and has won many awards behind him (the Works in Progress of the Karlovy Vary Festival / Eurimages, the Cinelink at the Sarajevo Festival, and the CNC in the forum Crossroads of the Festival of Thessaloniki). Far from the proposal of the new Greek cinema (Yorgos Lanthimos, Athina Rachel Tsangari), in Park there is love, nihilism and violence that can be savored in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona (as of July 14) and from anywhere in Spain in the Atlantis Film Fest until July 28.
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TONIA MARKETAKI Tonia Marketaki (1942-1994) was a Greek director and screenwriter. In 1967 she was imprisoned by the Colonel’s regime (dictatorship). One of her most famous and truly touching works was The Price of Love (Η τιμή της Αγάπης). A young woman, deeply in love with her husband to be, is expecting his baby. He refuses to marry her, though, unless he is given dowry. Based on one of Contantinos Theotoki’s short stories, the film explores all the difficulties a young woman faces once she is known to be in an intimate relationship with a man. Women’s strength is highlighted as the young woman refuses to compromise. The picture was downloaded using Google’s retrieval tool for images (free for re-use).
Conclusions There weren’t many women that had access to these positions in the work field, but women that could become part of this job world, they did so on their merit. They demonstrate in many opportunities that they are more than qualified to carry out jobs in their field. For this reason we have to help women to demonstrate that both men and women could do the same job.