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In 1978, the year in which she would be 71 years old, Carmen Conde is elected Academic Number of the Royal Spanish Academy, becoming the first woman to enter this institution.
It was on February 9 when, after the votes of the 32 academics, it was elected, imposing itself on the other two candidates: Rosa Chacel and Carmen Guirao.
He would occupy the K chair, which Miguel Mihura had vacated.
On January 28, 1979, he took possession pronouncing his entry speech, entitled 'Poetry before time and immortality', which was answered on behalf of the corporation by Guillermo Díaz-Plaja.
As Alonso Zamora Vicente pointed out in his "Historia de la Real Académica Española", "thus breaking the fire and jumping the barriers", since since the foundation of this one in 1713, no woman had been elected.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the entry of the Cartagena writer in the RAE, the City of Cartagena, through the Department of Culture, in collaboration with the Board of Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver and the New Theater Circus have scheduled a series of activities such as, a literary journey, a recital of poetry, the concert of Paco Ibáñez or several round tables on the figure of the writer of the poems 'Brocal', 'While men die', 'Jubilation' or 'Poems to Mary' .
The act of presentation of the program of activities has had the presence of the Councilor for Culture, David Martinez, the director of the Board Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver, Cayetano Tornel, and the director of Culture of the City of Cartagena, Fulgencia Plazas.
The Councilor for Culture, David Martinez, said that Carmen Conde is "a milestone for academics and writers" because the percentage of women in the RAE (18%) is less than that of men.
Elena Quiroga, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Iglesias, Margarita Salas, Soledad Puertolas Villanueva, Inés Fernández Ordóñez, Carmen Riera Guilera, Aurora Egido, Clara Janés, Paz Battaner have been some of the women who have struggled and have achieved an armchair with their effort of the Royal Spanish Academy.
According to Carmen Riera, woman who occupied the chair in 2013, until 2050 "there will be no equality or parity in the RAE".
'I have come to love you, to tell me your words of sea and palm trees', a verse about a poem dedicated to the Mar Menor, has been the motto of the poster of the 40th anniversary, made by the painter Gaby Guillen, who has donated his original work to the Board Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver.
The Director of Culture of the City of Cartagena, Fulgencia Plazas, concluded by stating that "Carmen Conde is a personal and literary kaleidoscope and a great person who has helped other writers and academics."
ACTIVITIES
Paco Ibáñez Concert
Paco Ibáñez celebrates 50 years of his legendary concert at the Olympia with a tour that began in Paris and travels through Spain and Latin America, and with which the artist recovers the embers of May 68. The famous singer-songwriter returns to the New Theater Circus de Cartagena this Sunday, May 5, at 8:30 p.m., on the occasion of the activities of the 40th anniversary of the entry of the Carmen Conde RAE.
His songs will transport to a space of love, freedom and dignity, a space of resistance to injustice, violence and horror, a space that vindicates humanism in the face of the barbarism of the 19th century.
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Tickets can be purchased for 22 euros at the box office or on the website of the Nuevo Teatro Circo de Cartagena.
Activities of May 9
The Poeta Antonio Oliver School will carry out a series of activities to celebrate the anniversary of the entrance of Carmen Conde as they are, a children's musical recital, a poetry workshop.
In addition, starting at 10 am, there will be a literary tour organized by the Board of Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver.
An activity that is freely accessible and in which anyone can participate.
At 13 o'clock, on the outside staircase of the Palace, will be held the reading of the speech that Carmen Conde took possession in the Academy.
The reading will be done by 10 writers from the Region of Murcia.
In the Culture Classroom of the Caja Murcia Foundation, there will be two round tables, at 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
The first will be about the legacy of Carmen Conde, while the second will be about the stay of Carmen Conde in the RAE, which will be attended by Oscar López, director of the television program 'Paginados'.
Writers and writers who know the figure and works of Carmen Conde will take part.
In addition, in October, a series of activities will be carried out to bring the figure of this writer closer to the people of Cartagena and those attending the events.
WORDS OF ANTONIO OLIVER ON CARMEN CONDE
The Director of Culture of the City of Cartagena, Fulgencia Plazas, has read some verses dedicated by Antonio Oliver to his wife Carmen Conde.
The verses have given way to the delivery of the 40th anniversary poster about the entry of the Cartagena writer.
"You can humiliate her, torment, vex, but nobody will remember you at the corner of a few years.
The case is from Teresa de Ávila to the present day, there has not been in the Spanish woman, a shudder and a faith like that of Costanza Carmen Conde ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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