Spanish poet honors overlooked hero of the Warsaw Ghetto

MADRID - largest second poetry prize of the Spain was awarded this year to a volume honoring the heroines overlooked, including Irena Sendler, who saved 2,500 Jewish children by their smuggling of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Sendler has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for peace in 2007, a year before his death. She lost to former US Vice-President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change.

"It is quite clear that it could have been truly worthy recipient of the award (Nobel Prize), no question, said Fatima Frutos, winner of the poetry Kutxa Ciudad de Irun 2011 Prize, ahead of an international field of 204"

"The visibility of women must be justified, those that have been considered secondary, who had no recognition but deserve that and much more."

Frutos also recalls Artemisia Gentileschi, a prominent painter of 17th century Italian and Spanish of the 19th century writer Carolina Coronado, which is struggling to achieve recognition in the fields then dominated by men.

Moreover, it honours, among others, Carl von Weizsaecker, a nuclear physicist of the 20th century, who would later become a philosopher.

"I start with the stories and build their lyricism and poetry, to assert their verse by verse," she said. "It is not only about giving visibility to invisible women, but also to the geniuses of the 20th century whose work has yet to shake up the consciences of the 21st century."

The volume of the recipient of the "Andromeda Encadenada" (encha?né Andromeda) takes its title from the Greek mythological Princess who was chained to a rock, but figure that Frutos sees as a source of inspiration rather than a victim.

It follows his 2009 volume "De Carne y hambre" (of flesh and hunger), which won the international prize of the erotic poetry of Ateneo Guipuzcoano.

"The myth allows me to discover other women as she who, in real life, through extreme, but nevertheless came through, if not euphoric, then at least optimistic and stronger,"Frutos say.""

"Andromeda" also adopts a perspective of pan-European topical with poems dedicated to the 18th century German philosopher Novalis or lyric poet of the 19th century studied.

"Now there are many reasons to defend European culture, the European ideal, the feeling that there is no European first or second class, but that we all in this together," she said.

Frutos main inspiration as a writer was Miguel Hernandez, a Spanish poet who died in prison in 1942, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

"Hernandez were inoculated we poison blessed poetry so that we can grow without rancor but with force to advance social justice," said Frutos, who works as an agent of the equality of the local government.

The price of Irun is the second valuable most award for poetry in Spain and is open to all writers in Spanish. When she collects the award on May 28, Frutos devote to his grandmother, who took her reciting poems by Hernandez, she had learned by heart, because she cannot read or write.

"She wakes without rancor with poetry." She knew how hard-hearted me with as to hands and cover me with stanzas by great writers, "she said."

"I am a poet because of it." It must be said that an illiterate woman who lived in poverty also knew how to raise an international poet laureate. ?

Spanish filmmaker clad invisible legacy in book

MADRID- with children spurred Spanish award-winning film director and writer Julia Montejo to turn his hand to literature, and she has published her second novel with a third on the way.

"I was much more productive since I had two children, perhaps because I am afraid of all the speeches that, oh, now you're a mother you stopped dead,"Montejo told Reuters at his home in Madrid."."

"I have not stopped working all the." I have written for television, I have two novels, there is the agreement of Fox and my university education, "she added, referring to an agreement to film his script" heart for auction "with the Twentieth Century Fox, News Corp unit."

Heart is a young woman eager to study and to escape from a poor background in which his friends aspirations are limited to be friends of footballers.

It takes the initiative desperate to put his virginity up for auction on a game televised fights for ratings.

"It's a film about sex, no sex." She would go to any lengths to television, this seems very topical, "said Montejo.

LEGACY INVISIBLE

Montejo has lived in the United States for eight years, during which she wrote and directed the production U.S. - Spanish "No. Turning Back" in 2001, which won the best independent Latino film at the ALMA awards, a Latino of Oscars version.

She returned to Spain in 2004 and has her first child in 2006, the same year, she released "Eva desnuda" (naked Eve), finalist for the price of the book Plaza y Janes.

"Para Violetas Olivia"(violettes_pour_Olivia), his second novel, is on sale month last in Spain and is due to be published in Italian by Mondadori. "."

Montejo tells the story of a young professional who fight for wilted irons of what Montejo that calls the "legacy invisible" female models made over the centuries, defined in the context of a family of hide bound to the South of the Spain.

"We have just started to take a break", she said. "They still sell us the tale of Prince charming and all these novels of Bridget Jones-type in which women are professionals but disappointed because they have not met the perfect man.".

"We women have to understand where this comes, because otherwise we will be happy or establish meaningful relationships."

"Olivia" graphics how generations of women married by arrangement or convenience, requiring to hide behind religion or become rebels.

"The character of Olivia learns much, lives a lot, fully, the rebels, but is incapable of teaching his daughter to prevent him from making the same mistakes," said Montejo.

The novel marks a break with his first book, which was more a detective novel. Montejo has refused to reveal the theme of his third book, but promised that it would be "very different" once again.

"I like writing books which are varied, shall we say." I get a little bored with authors who write the same old stuff. I am thinking up many ideas and I still love to explore, not only of the plots and the subject, but structures and styles.