Victòria Peña i Nicolau

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Victòria Peña i Nicolau
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Victòria Peña i Nicolau
Born(1827-03-23)March 23, 1827
Palma, Balearic Islands
Spain
Died1898
Barcelona, Catalonia
Spain
Pen nameVictoria Peña de Amer
OccupationWriter
Language Catalan
SpouseMiquel Victorià Amer

Victòria Peña i Nicolau (28 March 1827 in Palma – Barcelona, 1898) also known as Victoria Peña de Amer, was a Mallorcan poet, sister of Pere de Alcàntara Peña i Nicolau, married to the poet Miquel Victorià Amer.

Palma de Mallorca City and Municipality in Balearic Islands, Spain

Palma de Mallorca, since December 2016 Palma, is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma. The Cabrera Archipelago, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively considered part of the municipality. As of 2018, Palma de Mallorca Airport serves over 29 million passengers per year.

Barcelona City and municipality in Catalonia, Spain

Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the sixth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr area and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.

Biography

During her youth, she studied religious writers like Saint Teresa de Jesus, Fray Luis de Leon and Fray Luis de Granada. [1] When she was about twenty years old, she published in the newspapers of Palma her first compositions written in Spanish, and in 1855 she gave to the stamp a chosen collection of religious rhymes. She then began writing with a group that published the magazine El Plantel, where she met Miquel Amer, with whom she would marry and move to Barcelona in 1859, since the husband was named administrator of the Northern Railway. She had his support, although she expressed in her poetry the sadness caused by the death of her younger children. [2]

Amer's participation in the foundation and maintenance of the Barcelona Floral Games facilitated Victoria's participation in poetic contests. She obtained an award in 1859 with "Anyorança" ("Yearning") and was still awarded several times: 1865 for "Amor de mare" ("Motherly love"), 1873 for "Una visita a ma pàtria" ("A visit to my homeland"), 1880 for "Joventut perduda" ("Lost youth") and 1883 for "Lo meu niu" ("My nest"). [3] [4] The great participation of Victoria Peña in numerous contests provoked even the criticisms of people like for example Miquel dels Sants Oliver. Francesc Matheu collected much of her poetry in 1909, after the writer died, in a book published in Barcelona, "Poesies de Victòria Penya d'Amer" ("Poems by Victòria Penya d'Amer"). She died in Barcelona in 1898. [1]

Floral Games were any of a series of historically related poetry contests with floral prizes. In Occitan, their original language, and Catalan they are known as Jocs florals. In French they became the Jeux floraux, and in Basque Lore jokoak. The original contests may have been inspired by the Roman Floralia held in honour of Flora.

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References

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  2. ↑ Simón Palmer, María Carmendel (1991). Escritoras españolas del siglo XIX: manual bio-bibliográfico (in Spanish). Castalia. ISBN   978-8470396007.
  3. ↑ Roca y Roca, J. (8 November 1898). "La semana en Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish) (5576).
  4. ↑ "Victòria Peña i Nicolau". Enciclopèdia catalana. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
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