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The correspondence between Carmen Conde and María Cegarra together with 'Mineros', the unpublished work written by both, finally see the light.

This Monday, June 18, both publications have been presented that coincide with the 40th anniversary of the entry of the Cartagena writer as the first woman in the Royal Spanish Academy.

To present the works have appeared the mayor of Culture, David Martinez;

the professor of Spanish Literature of the University of Murcia, Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga;

the researcher, thanks to whom the works have been published, Fran Garcerá;

and the head of the Torremozas publishing house, Marta Porpetta, who has published the works.

They also wanted to be present at this event representatives of the Board Carmen Conde - Antonio Oliver and members of the family of Maria Cegarra.

The Councilor for Culture has manifested that these works highlight the figure of these two great women of Culture: Carmen Conde, first academic of the Royal Spanish Academy "of which this year marks the 40th anniversary of his entry", and Maria Cegarra Salcedo , writer and first woman Perito Químico of our country, who worked at La Unión.

Martinez also said that for the City Council it is very important to recover this correspondence "because it reflects the uncertainty and obstacles that these two women encountered and that they had to avoid to be part of the cultural history of this country."

The unpublished correspondence between Carmen Conde and María Cegarra Salcedo, as well as the unpublished work Mineros written by both, come to light in two editions prepared by the researcher Fran Garcerá (CCHS-CSIC), as a result of his research work at the Carmen Board Conde-Antonio Oliver and published by the Torremozas publishing house.

Carmen Conde and María Cegarra Salcedo belong to the group of writers who began their poetic journey during the first third of the 20th century in Spain, in a stage known as the Silver Age.

Both found in poetry and friendship a reason to overcome the insurmountable barriers of home, to the public space that literature and science provided them.

The 711 letters exchanged between Carmen Conde and María Cegarra Salcedo throughout their sixty-four years of friendship (1924-1988) constitute the most extensive cross-correspondence between two Spanish writers published so far.

This unpublished correspondence also includes the letters that Carmen Conde exchanged with the writer and editor Andrés Cegarra Salcedo, María's brother, and that constitute the genesis of the epistolary exchange established between the two authors.

Through these missives we can see the first steps of a very young Carmen Conde in literature.

Throughout its pages you will not only see the portrait of these two writers in fascinating years because of the high cultural commitment reached by society, but also the personalities that participated in the public life of the moment such as: Gabriela Mistral, Juan Ramón Jiménez , Norah Borges, Miguel Hernández or Jacinto Benavente of which the writers speak in their letters.

MINERS

Also published for the first time the work 'Miners' who wrote jointly between 1932 and 1933 although, finally, the development of the text was in the hands of Carmen Conde, who wrote his latest version in 1937.

Due to the human and social content of the work around the conflicting situation of the miners at a time did not convince Cegarra, who worked for mining entrepreneurs.

For this reason the work was never released or published, so it has remained unpublished and in the personal file of Carmen Conde so far.

Both editions are accompanied by two introductions in which Fran Garcerá tells the friendship story of both writers, as well as photographic material of the time.

That after carefully explaining his research has highlighted that with these publications "we are recovering a piece of history that can not be forgotten".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena