Maria Dolores Boixados
Date: 1919-2008
Region: Europe
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Literature
Artist: Maria Dolores Boixados
Confronting Bodies: Franco Regime
Dates of Action: 1930s-1970s
Location: Spain
Description of Artwork: Works of literature
The Incident: Inability to get published in Spain while Franco ruled. Censorship of all Boixados' works.
Results of Incident: Boixados was a finalist for the Nadal prize in 1944. She left Spain in 1949 and lived in the United States where she was a college professor. She continued to publish novels until her recent death.
Source: Islara Souto, Tallahassee, FL (from Boixados and Spanish press), Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature