Person - Mistral, Silvia (1914-2004)
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Mistral, Silvia (1914-2004)Other forms
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La Habana 1914 - 2004
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Spanish writer and self-taught woman who was born in Cuba and exiled in Mexico. Pseudonym of Hortensia Blanch Pita. She married Ricardo Mestre Ventura. Her professional career started in a cigarette paper factory. She was member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and exiled in France, only to go later to Mexico on board "Ipanema" ship. He had the help of the "Junta de Auxilio a los Republicanos Españoles" (JARE) and the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE). She collaborated in newspapers and cinematographic magazines by writing romance novels, children books and cinema critics, thus inaugurating the section known as "Cinemanías". Duing her stay in Spain, she wrote in "Umbral" magazine and collaborated in cinema production companies like Nuevo Cinema, Film Popular and Paramount.
In Mexico, she worked in "Hoy" newspaper and published "Éxodo:diario de una refugiada española". She also collaborated with "Diorama de la Cultura de Excélsior". Furthermore, she worked in the governmental radio. She was friend of León Felipe.
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
Description: Salida de Burdeos. Parada en Martinica por avería del buque. Llegada a Veracruz el 7 de julio de 1939.
Date of the event: 1939 - 1939-07-07
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Mistral, Silvia. Tuñon, Enriqueta. Proyecto de Historia Oral "Refugiados Españoles en México", Archivo de la Palabra, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México : entrevista a Silvia Mistral. realizada... por Enriqueta Tuñón... [para el Instituto Nacional de Antropología E Historia de México En Colaboración Con el Ministerio de Cultura de España]. [s.L.: S.N.]. 3 V..
Pla Brugat, Dolores. Catálogo del fondo de historia oral : refugiados españoles en México : Archivo de la Palabra. 1ª ed.. Dolores Pla Brugat (coordinadora). México D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. 2011. 1 CD-ROM. 978-607-484-184-8.
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