Carmen Rico Godoy

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Carmen Rico Carabias known as Carmen Rico Godoy (August 30, 1939 – September 12, 2001) was a Spanish writer, journalist and feminist.

Biography[]

Daughter of the also journalist Josefina Carabias and sister of the diplomatic María de las Mercedes Rico, was born in Paris while her mother exiled in the French capital since the Spanish Civil War. Her father, a socialist and republican, remained in prison in Francoist Spain until 1944, year in which the family met in Madrid. Ten years later they were to live in the United States, where her mother was a correspondent for the daily information. At Georgetown University, she studied political science, graduating in 1958. At the beginning of the Decade of 1960, installed in Paris, she started to publish in different newspapers. After passing by Argentina, was established in Spain in 1971. Her journalistic activity focused on the new and successful weekly, Cambio 16, of which she was co-founder. She also published in other journals, film scripts and in the Sunday edition of El Pais. Her latest novel, Fin de Fiesta, was a farewell to her readers. She was married to film producer Andrés Vicente Gómez. She died in Madrid on September 12, 2001.

Works[]

Novels[]

• Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento. (1990)
• Cómo ser infeliz y disfrutarlo (1991)
• Cuernos de mujer (1992)
• La costilla asada de Adán (1996)
• Cortados, solos y con (mala) leche (1999)
• Fin de Fiesta (2001)
• Tirar a matar (2001, unfinished)

Essays[]

• La neurona iconoclasta.
• Bajo el ficus de La Moncloa.
• Tres mujeres.

Screenplays[]

• (1988) Miss Caribe, of Fernando Colomo
• (1991) Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento (adaptation of her novel of the same name), of Ana Belén
• (1994) Cómo ser infeliz y disfrutarlo (adaptation of her novel of the same name), of Enrique Urbizu.
• (2000) El paraíso ya no es lo que era, of Francesc Betriu

Awards[]

• 1997 – Francisco Cerecedo Journalism Award of the Association of European journalists.

References[]

• ^[1]
• News of the death
• News of the death at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• Biographical review on Cinco Días at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• Interview on the daily El Mundo in 1997