{{short description|Spanish writer (1930-2016)}} {{Infobox person | name = Marta Portal | image = Marta Portal Nicolás 2.jpg | alt = | caption = Portal in 1970 | birth_name = Marta Portal Nicolás | birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|08|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Nava, Asturias, Spain | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|08|26|1930|08|10|df=yes}} | death_place = Madrid, Spain | other_names = | occupation = Teacher, journalist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''A tientas y a ciegas'' | spouse = | children = | awards = {{Plainlist| * Premio Planeta (1966) * Premio Adelaida Ristori (1975) * Premio Hucha de plata de cuentos (1991) * Premio Periodismo y el Horizonte (1992) * Premio de las Letras de Asturias (2007) }} | alma_mater = Complutense University of Madrid }} '''Marta Portal Nicolás''' (10 August 1930 – 26 August 2016) was a Spanish writer, critic, journalist, and professor associated with the Generation of '50.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://escritoras.com/escritoras/Marta-Portal |title=Marta Portal |website=escritoras.com |language=Spanish |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> She was a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
==Career== Portal held a degree in philosophy and literature and a PhD in Information Sciences, and taught Hispano-American literature at the Complutense University of Madrid.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.biblioasturias.com/nava-el-fondo-documental-marta-portal/ |title=Nava: El fondo documental Marta Portal |trans-title=Nava: The Marta Portal Documentary Fund |website=biblioasturias.com |language=Spanish |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=Feminist>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_lor-uEJr0C&pg=PA490 |title=The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature: N-Z |editor1-last=Pérez |editor1-first=Janet |editor2-last=Ihrie |editor2-first=Maureen |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=9780313324451 |pages=489–491 |year=2002 |access-date=22 October 2017 |via=Google Books}}</ref> In her work as a journalist she wrote news articles and literary criticism, as well as opinion columns in media such as ''ABC'', ''El Alcázar'', and ''Pueblo''.<ref name=Feminist/>
As a novelist, she discussed issues of women's education and double standards.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcaF0FAGLVYC&pg=PA387 |title=Los últimos veinticinco años de novela femenina en Asturias |trans-title=The Last 25 Years of Women's Novels in Asturias |last=Fernández González |first=Pilar |work=Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX |editor-last=Villalba Alvarez |editor-first=Marina |publisher=University of Castilla-La Mancha |isbn=9788484270454 |page=387 |language=Spanish |year=2000 |access-date=27 October 2017 |via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1966 she was awarded the Premio Planeta for the novel ''A tientas y a ciegas''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.premioplaneta.es/edicion/ganador1966.html |title=Ganador Premio Planeta 1966 |trans-title=1966 Premio Planeta Winner |publisher=Premio Planeta |language=Spanish |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=Nueva>{{Cite news |url=http://www.lne.es/sociedad/2016/11/11/fallece-escritora-catedratica-naveta-marta/2011557.html |title=Fallece la escritora y catedrática naveta Marta Portal, premio 'Planeta' en 1966 |trans-title=Writer and Professor Marta Portal Dies, 'Planeta' Award in 1966 |last=Menéndez |first=Mariola |work=La Nueva España |location=Nava |date=11 November 2016 |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> Portal received other awards over the course of her career, such as the Premio Adelaida Ristori, Premio Hucha de Plata de cuentos, and Premio de las Letras de Asturias.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.elcomercio.es/asturias/siero-centro/201611/11/silencioso-adios-marta-portal-20161111002200-v.html |title=El silencioso adiós de Marta Portal |trans-title=The Silent Goodbye of Marta Portal |work=El Comercio |language=Spanish |date=11 November 2016 |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref> She was president of the Cultural Association of Hispano-Mexican Friendship. In 2001, the city council of her native town inaugurated the Casa de Cultura Marta Portal in her honor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ayto-nava.es/instalaciones;jsessionid=F4E9DD5180A674EAE407657248197562.node1 |title=Instalaciones |trans-title=Installations |publisher=Nava Town Council |language=Spanish |access-date=27 October 2017}}</ref>
Marta Portal died in Madrid on 26 August 2016.<ref name=Nueva/>
==Works== ===Novels=== * ''A tientas y a ciegas'', Barcelona, Editorial Planeta, 1966 (Premio Planeta 1966) * ''El malmuerto'' (1967) * ''A ras de las sombras'' (1968) * ''Ladridos a la luna'' (1970) * ''El buen camino'' (1975) * ''Un espacio erótico'' (1982) * ''Pago de traición'', Barcelona, Editorial Planeta, 1983 * ''El ángel caído'' (1994) * ''Él y yo, nosotros tres'' (2002)
===Essays=== * ''El maíz: grano sagrado de América'' (1970) * ''Proceso narrativo de la revolución mexicana'' (1977) * ''Análisis semiológico de Pedro Páramo'' (1981) * ''Rulfo: Dinámica de la violencia'' (1984)
===Short stories=== * ''La veintena'' (1973)
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