Years active 1957 - present Name Margarita Carrera | Role Writer | |
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Born 16 September 1929 (age 94) ( 1929-09-16 ) Other names Margarita Carrera de Wever Occupation writer, philosopher, educator Similar People Luz Mendez de la Vega, Angelina Acuna, Ana Maria Rodas, Isabel de los Angeles, Luis Cardoza y Aragon | ||
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Margarita Carrera Molina (Guatemala City, 16 September 1929) is a Guatemalan philosopher, professor and writer. She is a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and the 1996 laureate of the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature.
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- Biography
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- Poetry
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Biography
Margarita Carrera Molina was born 16 September 1929 in Guatemala City to Frenchman Antonio Carrera Martello and Josefina Molina Llardén. Her father committed suicide when she was a child and she had to work to help support her family, going to night school to learn. She was the first female graduate in Literature from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in 1957 and the first women to ever become a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua in 1967. Since 1957, she has been employed as a university professor at her alma mater, as well as Rafael Landívar University and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. She has been a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid and served as guest writer on numerous international congresses held in Costa Rica, France, Germany, France, Germany, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, the US and Venezuela.
Carrera joined the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, IA in 1982. She is currently a columnist for Prensa Libre of Guatemala where she has written since 1993 and has published in many other newspapers, including Diario de Centro America, La Hora, and El Imparcial. She writes two columns at Prensa Libre weekly, in addition to having published twenty books.
In an interview in her 70s, Carrera said that she often wrote about men she found interesting and whom she studied to help her understand the man she never knew, her father. Among those she studied and wrote about were Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. After his death, she read about Juan José Gerardi Conedera and ended up writing a novel about his life.
Private life
Carrera was married for seven years and divorced. She has two children.