Carmen Laforet (1921-2004)

Spain | Novelist and cultural journalist

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Barcelona on September 6, 1921, Carmen Laforet Díaz started her education in Las Palmas, Canary Islands where her family moved in 1923. She returned to Barcelona after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and relocated to Madrid in 1942. Inspired by her experience of returning to Barcelona after the war, Laforet published her first novel, Nada in 1945, which won the first Nadal Prize, receiving international recognition.

With her La mujer nueva (1955), Carmen Laforet won the Premio Nacional de Literatura Miguel Cervantes Prize in 1956.

She died in Madrid on February 28, 2004.

CHRONOLOGY

FOUNDATION and INSTITUTIONAL WEBSITES

 Carmen Laforet's official website 

SELECTED WORKS at IU BLOOMINGTON

WORKS by CARMEN LAFORET

Laforet, Carmen. 2000. Nada [1944]. Edited by José Teruel. Madrid: Cátedra. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1991. La isla y los demonios [1952]. 2nd ed. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1973. Un noviazgo [1953]. Edited by Carolyn L. Galerstein, with introduction in English. Indianapolis, IN: Odyssey Press. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1956. La llamada [1954]. 2nd ed. Barcelona: Destino. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1956. La mujer nueva [1955]. Barcelona: Editorial Destino. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1956. Mis páginas mejores. Madrid: Gredos. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1967. Novelas [1957]. 6th ed. Barcelona: Planeta.

Laforet, Carmen. 1963. Insolación. Barcelona: Planeta. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1967. Paralelo 35. Barcelona: Planeta. 

Laforet, Carmen. 1970. La niña y otros relatos. Madrid: EMESA. 

WORKS by CARMEN LAFORET in ENGLISH

Laforet, Carmen. 2007. Nada [Nada, 1945]. Translated by Edith Grossman. Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa. New York: Modern Library. 

 

CARMEN LAFORET in EDITED WORKS

Laforet, Carmen., Ramón José Sender, and Israel Rolón Barada. Puedo Contar Contigo: Correspondencia de Carmen Laforet y Ramón J. Sender. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 2003. 

Laforet, Carmen, Cristina Cerezales, Silvia Cerezales Laforet, Nuria Capdevilla-Argüelles, and Elena Fortún. De corazón y alma: (1947-1952). Madrid: Fundación Banco Santander, 2017. 

INTERVIEWS with CARMEN LAFORET

Gazarian-Gautier, Marie-Lise. 1992. "Carmen Laforet," in her Interviews with Spanish Writers. Elmwood Park, ILL: Dalkey Archive, pp. 151-164. 

 

Additional works by Carmen Laforet and her work available at IU Bloomington Libraries.

CRITICISM and INTERPRETATION of CARMEN LAFORET'S WORK

Cerezales, Agustín. Carmen Laforet. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 1982. 

Fuente, Inmaculada de la. Mujeres de la posguerra. Editorial Planeta, Barcelona, 2002. 

Galdona Pérez, Rosa Isabel. Discurso femenino en la novela española de posguerra: Carmen Laforet, Ana Marìa Matute y Elena Quiroga. La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Renerife: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna, 2001. 

Illanes Adaro, Graciela. La novelística de Carmen Laforet. Madrid: Gredos, 1971. 

Mizrahi, Irene. El trauma del franquismo y su testimonio critico en Nada de Carmen Laforet. Newark, DE: Juan De La Cuesta, 2010. 

BIOGRAPHIES of CARMEN LAFORET

Caballé, Anna, and Israel Rolón Barada. Carmen Laforet: una mujer en fuga. Barcelona: RBA Libros, 2010. 

Johnson, Roberta. Carmen Laforet. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981. 

Rosenvinge, Teresa, and Benjamín Prado. Carmen Laforet. Ediciones Omega, Barcelona, 2004. 

 

Additional works on Carmen Laforet available at IU Bloomington Libraries. 

ORIGINAL WORKS and CRITICISM in OPEN ACCESS

Letters by Carmen Laforet - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Carmen Laforet seen by ...  - Carmen Laforet's official website

Un misterio llamado Carmen Laforet - newpaper article by Anna Caballé published in El País on March 5, 2021.

ONLINE AUDIO and VISUAL RECORDINGS

Carmen Laforet (Barcelona, 1921 - Madrid, 2004) - from Cartas Viva's, a University of Exeter, Universitat de Barcelona, and Santander Fundación collaborative project to recover the private history of relevant female thinkers through their own words.

Nada | Carmen Laforet (Un Libro una hora 35) - SER Podcast , January 27, 2021.

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS and TRIBUTES

Carmen Laforet: centenario - Café Zimmerman, RTVE, June 24, 2021.

El silencio de Carmen Laforet: 100 años de su nacimiento -  Virtual conference organized by the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). April 23, 2021.

Carmen Laforet. Centenario de su nacimiento, 1921-2021 - Red de Bibliotecas Publicas Municipales de Málaga.

Carmen Laforet y los Estados Unidos: En conmemoración del centenario de la autora - Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, January 28, 2021.

Legado "in memoriam" de Carmen Lafortes a la Caja de las Letras - Instituto Cervantes, streamed on September 6, 2021.

RELATED LINKS

Google conmemora con un Doodle el 100 cumpleaños de Carmen Laforet - La Vanguardia 09/06/2021

Carmen Laforet’s 100th Birthday Google Doodle