Carmen Balcells Segala (9 August 1930 – 20 September 2015) was a literary agent of Spanish-language authors from Spain and Latin America, including six Nobel Prize–winning authors. She led her agency from 1956 to 2000, during which time she was one of the driving forces behind the 1960s boom of Latin American literature.
After her retirement she was awarded with an honorary doctorate, besides other awards, but returned to the agency in 2008. Authors who have published with Balcells have dedicated novels to her and included her as characters in her work; she is praised as "one of the most powerful and influential women in Spanish letters."[1] She died at the age of 85 in Barcelona on 20 September 2015.[2] At her death Mario Vargas Llosa said: "Carmen queridísima, hasta pronto" ("Carmen dearest, see you soon").[3]
CarmenBalcells Segala (9 August 1930 – 20 September 2015) was a literary agent of Spanish-language authors from Spain and Latin America, including six...
Balcells is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carlos Balcells, Filipino bass guitarist CarmenBalcells (1930–2015), Spanish literary...
May of the award year. The prestigious Literary Agency CarmenBalcells, founded by CarmenBalcells and considered the fundamental instigator of the Latin...
American literature in Spain" (and elsewhere) was the "super-agent" CarmenBalcells, whom Vargas Llosa referred to as "The Big Mama of the Latin American...
las Letras del Instituto Cervantes Tommaso Koch (21 March 2011). "CarmenBalcells cede a un escritor marginal el protagonismo de un homenaje del Cervantes"...
Retrieved 19 April 2017. "Salvador de Madariaga". Agencia Literaria CarmenBalcells. Retrieved 16 February 2023. Stanley G. Payne, Spain's First Democracy:...
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estate in London and Madrid. Following the Panama Papers leak in 2016, CarmenBalcells said on behalf of Vargas Llosa that investments were made "without...
Alea's celebrated movie Strawberry and Chocolate (1994). "Senel Paz: Agencia Literaria CarmenBalcells". agenciabalcells.com. Retrieved 2020-03-14. v t e...
Barcelona. Retrieved 2022-08-04. "Miquel de Palol". Agencia Literaria CarmenBalcells. Retrieved 2022-08-04. "Miquel de Palol at the Montreal International...
2012) August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010) August 9 CarmenBalcells, Spanish literary agent (d. 2015) Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian...
completes the map of the real Cosmogony. "Lisa Morpurgo". Agencia Literaria CarmenBalcells. http://www.lisamorpurgo.org Official website Official website...
non-fiction book Chiman on the whaling industry in Iberia. "Alex Aguilar". Agencia Literaria CarmenBalcells (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-29. v t e v t e...
Frances (1968). The cycle also comprises another 25 short stories. CarmenBalcells Literary Agency: Max Aub, Bibliography. Retrieved 2021-10-23. Britannica...
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