Julia Uceda Valiente

Category: Writer

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She took a degree in Philosophy and Arts at Seville University in 1960 and a doctor’s degree at the same university, presenting her thesis ‘La vida y la obra de José Luis Hidalgo’ in 1963.

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMICAL POSITIONS:
A) Spain:
1957: she entered the Archives and Library Corps.
1960-64: assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts at Seville University.
1964: temporary assistant teacher in the same Faculty and Professor of Spanish Language and Literature.
1980: Professor of University Colleges.

B) USA and Ireland:
1965-66: Distinguished Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, Romance Languages Department.
1967-73: Full Professor at the same university and department.
1974-76: she gave special classes at the University College of Dublin.

 Work & Activities

FICTION:
-‘En elogio de la locura’, prologue by Manuel Mantero, Seville, Vasija (Fiction book collection, Grupo Barro, 8), 129 pages.
-‘La carretera’, Ínsula, June, nº 199 (1963).

ANTHOLOGIES AND TRANSLATIONS:
‘Poesía’, edition and introduction by Francisco J. Peñas-Bermejo, Valle-Inclán Cultural Society, Esquío Poetry collection, XLIV, (Ferrol, 1991), 221 pages.
‘The Poetry of Julia Uceda’, translated with an introduction by Noël Valis, New York, PeterLang (Nuestra Voz, 2), 1995, 215 pages.

L’incerta parete de la memoria (La incierta pared de la memoria),: «Presentazione» by Salvatore Ritrovato, Edizione di Emilio Coco, Levante Editori, Bari, Col. I Quaderi di Abanico. Poeti contemporanei spagnoli. Dirigono Lucia Coco.

Anthology selection:
‘Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of America’, Beverly Hills, Monitor Book Company, 1986-1988, pages 543-544.
BARROSO, Elena (ed): ‘Poesía andaluza de hoy (1950-1990). Aproximación a su estudio y selección’, Seville, Editoriales Andaluzas Unidas, (Biblioteca de la Cultura Andaluza, 85), 1991, pages 107-120.
BARSTONE, Aliki and Willis (eds.): ‘A Book of Women Poets from the Antiquity to Notv’, New York, Schocken Books, 1980.
BENTO, José (ed.): ‘Antología da Poesía Española Contemporanea’, Lisbon, Assirio e Alvim, 1985, pages 598-609.
CANO, José Luis (ed.): ‘Antología de poetas andaluces contemporáne-os’, Madrid, Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, 1978, pages 434-436.
CARENAS, Francisco: ‘Poetas españoles de hoy en los Estados Unidos’, Madrid, Rialp, 1970, pages 141-146.
CONDE, Carmen (ed.): ‘Antología de la poesía amorosa contemporá-nea’, Barcelona, Bruguera, 1969, pages 717-775.
FUENTES, María de los Reyes (ed.): ‘Antología de poetas jóvenes sevi-llanos’, Caracas, Ed. Lírica Hispana, 159, 1956, pages 50-55.
GARCÍA-POSADA, Miguel, ed.: ‘40 años de poesía española’, Cincel-Kapelusz, first edition, 243 pages [143-146], 2nd edition, Editorial Burdeos, Madrid, 1988, 235 pages [141-144].
GARCÍA TEJERA, María del Carmen and HERNÁNDEZ GUERRERO, José Antonio ‘Poetas andaluces de los años cincuenta. Estudio y antología’, José Manuel Lara Foundation, Vandalia Mayor, Seville, 2003, 821 pages. [791-804].
GARCÍA VIÑÓ, Manuel: ‘La generación sevillana del cincuenta y tantos’, ‘Caracola’, 168-169, (Málaga, October-November 1966).
JIMÉNEZ MARTOS Luis, ed.: selected poems for ‘Antología Anual de Poesía Española’, Aguilar, (Madrid, 1959-67).
(ed.): ‘Antología general de Adonais (1943-1968)’, Madrid, Rialp, 1969.
JOSIA, Vicenzo (ed.): ‘Poeti sivigliani di oggi’, Rome, Opere Nuove, 1966, pages 145-150.
KEEFE UGALDE, Sharon and ROSAL, María: ‘Doce poetas andaluzas para el siglo XXI’, Montilla, Aula Poética Casa el Inca, 2003, 18 pages [page 7].
‘La Palabra Debida’, introduction by Teresa Jiménez Vilchez, Andalusian Woman Institute, Seville, 2000, «Entre un poema...», «Carta» and «Busco señales en la piedra».
MANTERO, Manuel (ed.): ‘Los Derechos del Hombre en la poesía his-pánica contemporánea’, Madrid, Gredos (B.R.H., ‘Antología Hispá-nica’, 32), 1973, pages 258-259.
‘Poesía española contemporánea. Estudio y antología (1939-1965)’, Barcelona, Plaza y Janés (1966).
RICO, Manuel: ‘11/M, Poemas contra el olvido’, Bartleby (Madrid, 2004, page 177).
WILSON, Katharina M.: ‘An Enciclopedia of Continental Women Writers’, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991, pages 1257-1258.
ZHAO, Zhenjiang (ed. and trans.): ‘Antología de la poesía femenina en España en el siglo XX’, Beijing, 2001, pages 157-169.

BOOKS:
‘Mariposa en cenizas’, Alcaraván, 7 Arcos, Cádiz (1959), ‘Extraña Juventud’, accesit of Adonais Prize, Madrid, Rialp, Adonais CCIII Collection (1962), ‘Sin mucha esperanza’, Madrid, Ágora Collection, 29 (1966), ‘Poemas de Cherry Lane’, Madrid, Ágora, 75 (1968), ‘Campanas en Sansueña’, Madrid, Dulcinea, VIII (1977), ‘Viejas voces secretas de la noche’, Ferrol, Esquío (1981), ‘Del Camino de Humo’, Seville, Renaissance (1994), ‘En el viento, hacia el mar (1959-2002)’, edition and study by Sara Pujol Russell, José Manuel Lara Foundation, Seville, Vandalia Maior Collection, National Poetry Prize in 2003 (2002), ‘L’incerta parete de la memoria (La incierta pared de la memoria)’, Edizione di Emilio Coco, Levante Editori, Bari, I Quaderi di Abanico. Poeti contemporanei spagnoli. Dirigono Lucia Coco (2003).

PLAQUETTES
‘Poetas en Sevilla. Julia Uceda’, Área de Cultura y Fiestas Mayores, City Council of Seville, 2001 (Anthology of published work and three unpublished poems in the book) and ‘Poesía en la Residencia. Lectura de Poemas de Julia Uceda’, Wednesday 28th January 2004, Madrid.

ANTHOLOGIES AND TRANSLATIONS
‘Julia Uceda. Poesía’, edited by Francisco J. Peñas-Bermejo, Ferrol, Esquío (1991), ‘The Poetry of Julia Uceda’, translated with an introduction by Noël Valis, New York, Peter Lang (introduction and bibliography, page 18; anthology, page 196) (1995), ‘L’incerta parete della memoria (La incierta pared de la memoria)’, Edizione di Emilio Coco, Levante Editori, Bari, and poems translated for Shvo (Moshe Benarroch), Waiguo Wenyi (Professor Zhao Zhenjiang) and for Si Scrive (Emilio Coco) (2003).

Together with Manuel Mantero, she founded ‘Rocío’, poetical magazine (Seville) and directed Esquío Poetry Collection and Esquío Prize in Ferrol together with Fernando Bores and ‘La barca de Loto’ Essay Collection with Sara Pujol.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
‘Diccionario de Literatura Española’, Revista de Occidente, 1964.
‘Dictionary of American Scholars’, 1969.
‘Diccionario de Literatura Española e Hispanoamericana, 2’, edited by Ricardo Gullón, Alianza, Madrid, 1993.
Ramón J. Sender, ‘Monte Odina’, Guara Editorial, ‘Nueva Biblioteca de Autores Aragoneses’, Zaragoza, 1989.
‘Enciclopaedia Britannica’, ed. On line.

 Other Interesting Aspects

She was nominated as honorary citizen of Andalusia in February 2005.
She was awarded the National Critic Prize in 2007 for 'Zona desconocida'.