Reseña

Librarian by profession, Zoraida Burgos is a poet and narrator of children's and youth literature in Catalan. She has been considered the leading female voice in the post-war literature of the Terres de l'Ebre. Initially she is inscribed to historical realism with collections referring to the reality of the country, in full Francoism, but progressively, after the advent of democracy, her poetry became more intimate and introspective and she entered on ironic and enigmatic paths. In her verses, she deals with the passing of time, solitude and language itself. She has been included in the anthology Com elles (2017), alongside poets such as Anne Sexton, Ida Vitale, and Sylvia Plath, in a selection by poet Mireia Vidal-Conte. 

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Justificaciones

• She has been considered the leading female voice in the post-war literature of the Terres de l'Ebre.
• Té producció in Catalan and Spanish.
• Her poetic work deals with the passage of time, solitude and language itself.
• Her first period is part of historical realism.
• She is a poet and narrator of children's literature in Catalan language.
• She obtained the Premi de la crítica Catalana de poesia in 2017.

Biografía

Zoraida Burgos was born in Tortosa in 1933. Her education, family and school, in the Teresianas until the age of ten and in the Institut de Batxillerat de Tortosa afterwards, was in Spanish, although at secondary school she began speaking Catalan with her colleagues. During that time she read much Spanish literature from the 19th and 20th centuries (Valera, Baroja, Valle Inclán, Machado, etc.) and her first literary attempts were in Spanish. Catalan was learned by taking distance language courses. She studied at the School of Librarians in Barcelona and, professionally, she has mainly worked as a librarian in Ulldecona, Amposta and Tortosa.  

She began publishing the first poems in La Zuda magazine during the 1960s, in full Francoism.  
Despite repression and censorship, along with Manuel Pérez-Bonfill, Jesús Massip, Gerard Vergés, Ricard Salvat and Rosa Sánchez, she managed to make Tortosa's cultural life more dynamic. She has been considered the leading female voice in the literature of the post-war Ebro Lands.  
In 1963, she was finalist of the Rosselló-Pòrcel de Cantonigròs prize, but the collection was not published and Zoraida Burgos was not unveiled until the publication of the poetry collection D'amors, d'enyors and other things, winner of the Màrius Torres prize, in 1971, a book that was kidnapped by the Ministry of Information and Turism and for which she had to go to testify before a judge. That same year she began her career as a storyteller for children, which she started when her children were young and told them made up stories. 
She later wrote the collection Vespres (1978), which associated with the end of the Francoist regime, Cicle de la nit (1982), Reflexos (1989) and Blaus (1993), for which she won the Guerau de Liost prize for poetry, L'obsessió de les dunes (1994) for which she won the Josep Pin i Soler Prize, and Absolc el temps (2012), Vila de Lloseta Prize for poetry.  
While early poetry can be considered social poetry, his work later takes on a more intimidating and introspective look, with dreamy and sensual images. 
In 2017  Convivència d'aigües appeared in the publishing house LaBreu, which brings together all her published poems and several unpublished ones, and was recognized with the Premi de la Crítica Catalana de poesia. In the same year, she was included in the anthology Com elles (2017), alongside poets such as Anne Sexton, Ida Vitale and Sylvia Plath, with a selection by Mireia Vidal-Conte.  
We can find her on the page of the AELC.

Obras

Bibliografía

Castellà, Montse (2019). Zoraida Burgos i Matheu: resum biogràfic. Benicarló: Onada Edicions.

Riba, Caterina i Coll Mariné, Jaume (2021). A un revolt de la sendera. 5 poetes. Juneda: Fonoll.

Roig, Albert (2017). “Erm de la desapareguda”, in Zoraida Burgos Convivència d'aigües, Barcelona: Labreu edicions, pp. 341-343.

Subirats, Andreu (2019). “Sobre Convivència d’aigües de Zoraida Burgos”.  Reduccions. Revista de Poesia, 112, pp. 227-38.

Todó, Joan (2017). “Zoraida Burgos: el secret més ben guardat”, in Sèniors poètics. Barcelona: Departament de Cultura, pp. 43-48.

Vallverdú, Francesc (1985). “Temps concret de Zoraida Burgos”, in Francesc Vallverdú. Escrits sobre poetes i poesia. Manacor: Tià de Sa Real: Manacor, pp. 104-106.

Òmnium Cultural de les Terres de l’Ebre, Centre de Normalització Lingüística de les Terres de l’Ebre i Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2012). Fragments de fragments. Fragments de poesia, narrativa i contes infantils de Zoraida Burgos, 4-6-2023, https://www.cpnl.cat/media/upload/pdf/e_120320tastets201222_editora_128_8169_1.pdf

Enfoque Didáctico

The author can be dealt with in Catalan, Spanish and Universal Literature, both in the ESO and high school courses. 
Her life experience during the civil war and exile can be worked from history.  
She has  early age poems that refer to specific historical events, strikes, demonstrations, the imposition of the Spanish language, racist struggle in the United States, etc. 
She has also poems that start from an artistic piece, such as Guernica, and books in which she collaborates with artists such as Pilar Lanau, who could be treated in Art subjects.  
Fragments of poetry, narrative and children's stories by  Zoraida Burgos: https://www.cpnl.cat/media/upload/pdf/e_120320tastets201222_editora_128_8169_1.pdf 

Documentos