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María Elena Walsh was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, playwright, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children. Her work includes many of the most popular children's books and songs of all time in her home country.
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Born 1 February 1930 · Died 10 January 2011 · Q188848
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Sylvio's the name and I can get you inside LID with no problem, I hold a very high standard and my father is elected to be this town's next mayor.
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“Yuki Judai. Though I indeed last to your cards, my soul itself is another matter. But, in any case. I have been defeated, but my true form is the darkness. I can easily be revived in this world!”
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“Sylvio's the name and I can get you inside LID with no problem, I hold a very high standard and my father is elected to be this town's next mayor.”
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“Time to swing into action! Ok Pendulum, you swung his way now you'll swing-my way! I'll use my Timegazer magician and stargazer magician to set the Pendulum scale! I'm taking control of this Duel starting now ! I can summon monsters all from Level 2 to 7 all at the same time!”
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“When did the circus came to town?(Yuya: It didn't. I'm your opponent.) Don't tell me you're the son of Yusho!? (Yuya:Yep! The one and only. So are you ready to get this show on a road? Or should I say, on a castle?)”
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“When she was preparing a show she spent the whole day calm, silent, meditating on what she was going to do that night, trying not to be distracted by anything. It was total dedication. Thanks to that concentration she achieved a command of the audience unlike anything I had ever seen before. One felt how the mood of the people changed as she wished. With a turn of her gaze, a gesture of her hand, one could clearly perceive the passage of a current through the audience.”
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“Who said that feminism is not human integration? And who said that Victoria was not a feminist? A lady, so cultured, so beautiful, academic on top of that, cannot—rather must not—be a feminist (...) The word feminist frightens many people. Especially those who fear ridicule. In one book it is said that what remains of it is a caricature, and the feminist is seen as an aggressive old woman, embittered by her lack of suitors in youth, badly dressed, without feminine charm.”
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“Among all forms of confinement, the religious one was just another. In reality, it was a poetic or aesthetic search disguised as a compulsive desire to have faith and to enter into the protection of the Catholic Church. I elaborated a sort of literary anthology of that Church and chose what suited me most, what seemed to me more aesthetic, more protective.”
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“Peronism is a very paradoxical movement… It called elections, but at the same time imprisoned its main opponent, Ricardo Balbín. Since I was fifteen, the country was divided into two camps, and one had to take a side. As a member of the 'educated class', I endured Peronism against my will.”
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“if Juan Ramón was capable of exerting such a profound influence, it was because I was very impressionable and was placing in him a series of perhaps mistaken expectations. Perhaps I expected a kind and affable teacher, not a figure who could be so categorical and aggressive.”
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In an event organized by the Instituto Cervantes and the Walsh-Facio Foundation, a joint tribute was held that included the reception and storage of various culturally valuable objects in the Caja de las Letras
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The María Elena Walsh House Museum was inaugurated, a cultural space open to the community located in the home where Walsh lived during her early years
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At the initiative of Sara Facio, the María Elena Walsh Foundation was created, aimed at preserving and promoting the singer's literary and musical work, as well as carrying out cultural activities and competitions to enc
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Released album “Entre Valles y Quebradas”.
Died 2011-01-10.
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Released album “El Legado”.
Was Sara Facio, an Argentine photographer, best-known herself for having photographed, along with Alicia D'Amico, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers Julio Cortázar and Alejandra Pizarnik
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Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2010).
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The scripts of Canciones para mirar and Doña Disparate y Bambuco were published for the first time, and a show, Varieté para María Elena, directed by Gerardo Sofovich, was staged at the Teatro Tabarís
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Reflected on the hypocrisy of Argentine society regarding issues affecting women:
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Gave an interview in which she stated that "I do not want to leave the country, or the city, or my house, or my bed
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Was diagnosed with severe osteoporosis, which caused great bone weakness
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Released album “Grandes éxitos vol.1”.
Released album “Canciones para chicos”.
Released album “Canciónes Para Grandes”.
Awarded Gran Premio de Honor de la SADE (2000).
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With the premiere of the film Manuelita, directed by Manuel García Ferré, which was a resounding success and made her known to new generations
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“Throughout history, learned or brutal men have known with certainty which crime deserved capital punishment. They always knew that I, and no one else, was guilty. They never doubted that the punishment was exemplary. Every time this chastisement is invoked, humanity retreats on all fours.”
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Was Highly Commended for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, a prize awarded by the International Board on Books for Young People
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“For some time now we have been like children and cannot say what we think or imagine. When the censor disappears—because someday he will succumb, demolished by a motorway!—we will be decrepit and no longer know what to say. We will have forgotten the how, the where and the when, and we will sit in a square like the old couple in Quino's drawing who asked each other: 'What were we...?'”
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And, in 1995, she received the José Martí world prize for children's literature
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During the presidency of Carlos Menem in Argentina, the possibility of implementing the death penalty was debated, she wrote a reflection on the subject that ended with the following sentence:
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Awarded honorary doctor of the National University of Córdoba (1990).
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Released album “20 grandes éxitos”.
Published an autobiographical book, Novios de antaño, in which she evoked her early years
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“that book is a product of repression in the personal and social sense. Of a sinister time that I recommend to the nostalgic. A context of political censorship in which we also had a little boyfriend who lectured us.”
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Awarded Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires trolazo (1985).
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And received recognition from the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina for the Hebrew version of her stories in 1987
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After failing to meet the expectations it had generated
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Hosted the daily television programme La cigarra on Canal 11 together with Susana Rinaldi and María Herminia Avellaneda; it broke with the traditional afternoon programmes aimed at housewives, such as Buenas tardes,
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Susana Rinaldi premiered Hoy como ayer, a show conceived as a tribute to Walsh that covered all her songs for adults and helped support the author at a difficult moment in her life
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Awarded Konex Award (1981).
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To the Instituto del Diagnóstico with a guarded prognosis because of a fractured femur
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“If our society were seriously concerned about children's reading habits, it would try not to continue fostering the existence of ignorant mothers. Women are firmly discouraged, by all means, from cultivating themselves in depth (...) A girl enthusiastic about a novel will be told not to 'spend so much time sitting doing nothing', but to help with domestic chores.”
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Walsh again reflected on feminism through irony:
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Stands out, in which she described 24 reasons why a man may be classified as such
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We had a coup that once again swept all that away
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Released album “El buen modo”.
Released album “De puño y letra”.
Stated that "the country fell into a progressive abyss that has now become a prison at the bottom of the sea, with the texture of hell disguised by trips to Miami and the relentless propaganda that we are all 'right
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“As with its vain leavestime was losing me.Nailed to the wood of another dreamnights and days flew over me.Filling me witha distracted nostalgia the earth, the sea, entered my eyesand left through idle tears.”
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Toured the United States, Costa Rica and Mexico, where she met Juan Rulfo, and, upon returning, in an effort to recover financially after the failure of the film Juguemos en el mundo, she undertook several theatre se
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Released album “Como la cigarra”.
Awarded Argentores Award (1971).
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Released album “El sol no tiene bolsillos”.
The second volume of Juguemos en el mundo premiered pieces such as "Sapo fiero", "Canción de cuna para gobernantes", "Fideos finos", "El señor Juan Sebastián" and "El señor Ravel"
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Released album “Juguemos en el mundo II”.
Released album “Cuentopos para el recreo”.
Released album “Juguemos en el mundo”.
Released album “Cuentopos”.
Released ep “El País de La Navidad”.
Was invited by the director of the Teatro Regina, María Luz Regás, to give a recital and, to Walsh's surprise, although she expected to meet audience expectations within a week, the show ran for an entire year at the
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El país del Nomeacuerdo marked the close of her cycle of children's songs and the beginning of her collaboration with the musician Oscar Cardozo Ocampo; indeed, the versions of "Marcha de Osías", "La reina batata", "El g
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Released album “El País de Nomeacuerdo”.
Released Hecho a mano, a poetry collection for adults that Oscar Hermes Villordo described as an "ironic, wisely formal work, with much of the magic of everyday speech", and Versos para cebollitas, a compilation of c
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By CBS Columbia, which ensured good press and wide distribution
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Studied psychoanalytic pedagogy related to childhood in Argentina together with Eva Giberti, Florencio Escardó and Arnaldo Rascovsky
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Recorded one last LP, Navidad para los chicos, which brought together four Christmas songs by Walsh in which both sang with Roberto Aulés
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Released album “Canciones para mí”.
Released album “Canciones Para Mi”.
Released album “Canciones para mirar”.
Released ep “Doña Disparate y Bambuco”.
From thyroid cancer and the breakdown of her personal relationship with Valladares plunged Walsh into a deep depression that led her to undergo sleep-cure treatments
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Through Plin, a record label founded by Valladares and Walsh, which had no impact
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Released ep “Canciones de Tutú Marambá”.
That she make a children's television programme, which eventually led to the premiere of Doña Disparate y Bambuco, performed by Lydia Lamaison, Osvaldo Pacheco, Pepe Soriano and Teresa Blasco
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Released Canciones del tiempo de Maríacastaña, entirely devoted to couplets from the old Spanish ballad tradition, which, although they had performed them previously, they had never recorded systematically in a reco
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Released album “Canciones del tiempo de Maricastaña”.
Had been invited to work on Buenos días, Pinky, a programme starring Lidia Satragno, where she served as a scriptwriter
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Carried out an extensive tour of the Argentine Northwest, where they performed several songs that were later gathered in their first two albums made in the country, the two volumes of Entre valles y quebradas, both
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Before setting out on a trip to Europe, she published Baladas con Ángel, a book of little repercussion containing love poems
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As "a moving spectacle" and "one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life"
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According to her biographer Sergio Pujol, caused a "shift toward a religious feeling, until then completely unprecedented in the young woman"
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Traveled to North America at the invitation of poet Juan Ramón Jiménez
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Walsh, then 16 years old, published Oda del estudiante muerto in La Vanguardia, the socialist newspaper of Juan B
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At the age of 15, she published her first poem, titled Elegía, in the magazine El Hogar, illustrated by her schoolmate Elba Fábregas, with whom she had an intimate relationship and to whom Walsh dedicated a poem in Otoño
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To a more modest house on Calle Gaona in Ramos Mejía, which she would describe decades later as "the end of childhood"
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Born 1930-02-01.
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While her maternal grandparents were Andalusian and Creole
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Time to swing into action! Ok Pendulum, you swung his way now you'll swing-my way! I'll use my Timegazer magician and stargazer magician to set the Pendulum scale! I'm taking control of this Duel starting now ! I can summon monsters all from Level 2 to 7 all at the same time!
When she was preparing a show she spent the whole day calm, silent, meditating on what she was going to do that night, trying not to be distracted by anything. It was total dedication. Thanks to that concentration she achieved a command of the audience unlike anything I had ever seen before. One felt how the mood of the people changed as she wished. With a turn of her gaze, a gesture of her hand, one could clearly perceive the passage of a current through the audience.
Who said that feminism is not human integration? And who said that Victoria was not a feminist? A lady, so cultured, so beautiful, academic on top of that, cannot—rather must not—be a feminist (...) The word feminist frightens many people. Especially those who fear ridicule. In one book it is said that what remains of it is a caricature, and the feminist is seen as an aggressive old woman, embittered by her lack of suitors in youth, badly dressed, without feminine charm.
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