Gómez Ojea, Carmen

b. 1945, Gijón

   Writer

   Poet, innovative novelist and short story writer, Gómez Ojea accumulated an extensive unpublished oeuvre before winning the 1981 Nadal Prize with Cantiga de agüero (Canticle of Omens). Like feminist writers seeking women's past un-recorded by history, she deals with witchcraft, superstition, "wise women", myth, magic and folklore. This blend appears variously in her published works, including the story collection Otras mujeres y Fabia (Other Women and Fabia) (1982) and Los perros de Hécate (Hecate's Hounds) (1985). More realistic depiction of her generation's repressive upbringing combines fantasy and authentic student rebellions in La novela que Marien no terminó (Marien's Unfinished Novel).

   Further reading

   - Boschetto, S.M. (1992). " Double-Voiced Tales in Carmen Gómez Ojea's La novela que Marien no terminó", Hispania 75, 3: 500–7 (studies double narration in storytelling by characters who both act and narrate).

   - Castillo, D. (1990) "Frame Tale: Carmen Gómez Ojea's Otras mujeres y Fabia", In the Feminine Mode: Essays on Hispanic Women Writers, eds N.Valis and C.Maier, London: Associated University Presses (emphasis on role of patriarchy and condition of women).

   - Ordóñez, E. (1988). "Los perros de Hécate as a Paradigm of Narrative Defiance", Anales de la Narrativa Española Contemporánea 13, 1–2: 71–81 (emphasizes the character of Tarsiana plus reader-text relationships).

   JANET PÉREZ