Welcome to #365womentravelwriters One a day for the entire year. Today is Spanish writer Ana María Briongos, who was born is 1946 in Barcelona. Her academic and professional life show that she has wide range of interests: her degrees are in physics and Persian, the latter of which she learned at the University of Tehran during the time of the Shah. After her student days in Iran, she returned to Spain to run one of the largest educational/travel orgs in Europe: the International Student Exchange. After the Iranian Revolution, she left Spain and worked in carpet shop in Isfahan while she wrote her third book. (We love that she moved to a city to write about it, and we love even more that she got inside of it, deep in the bazaar, selling carpets!) After Iran, she felt drawn to India (just like us!) and moved to Calcutta for several years. Shes written many travel books in Spanish, and six have been translated into English including: Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban; Black on Black: Iran Revisited; La caverna di Alì Babà LIran giorno per giorno; Iran W jaskini Ali Baby; A caverna de Ali-Babá; Mijn leven in Iran - De bazaar van Isfahan; Der grot van Alí Baba - Een lente in Isfahan; Lenigma de la Pe Pi; ¡Esto es Calcuta! Shes also the author of a Iranian cookbook. Shes the winner of several literary awards, including her book, Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban, which won the 2009 Annual Latino Book Awards for best travel book. Another of her books, Black on black: Iran revisited was short listed for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award in 2001 getting into the final six contenders. When asked why she writes travel literature, she said it was because her perspective and experiences were important: to show how she saw things, and to make it a personal narrative--not just show a place through journalism, but how we are transformed by it. How much we agree with her words! And we also love that she has so embraced and become an important part of the classic tradition of this genre. Her work is well researched, beautifully rendered, and faultless: she works within the context of the genre and its rich history. A writer of classics. We especially recommend her book she wrote about her travels in Afghanistan, Winter in Kandahar.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 07:06:37 +0000
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