Gloria Fuertes

Gloria Fuertes

Gloria Fuertes (1917-1998). Madrid. He learned to invent before writing. For years and years of tears and laughter the poems of his body fell. In addition to eighty books, he published in the press and magazines and appeared a lot on TV. Today, it is a very tall tree.

«Gloria Fuertes was born in the district of Lavapiés, in Madrid, on July 28, 1917. Her father is a janitor and her mother is a seamstress and a cleaning woman. She is not a girl like the others. With very little money from his mother's purse - which he said he had grace, ingenuity, and very bad temper - to buy comics, polvorones and ice cream. At that time he spends the afternoon playing in the Plaza de Tirso de Molina and in Mesón de Paredes Street, very close to the Trail. I was born on the street of La Espada and lived in Dos Hermanas, Tres Peces and Cuatro Caminos. Neighborhoods of working people, a lot of need, a lot of whore and some convent, Gloria remembers. He takes long walks with his dog to kill the days and participates in football matches with other children in which she is always the only girl. His favorite team is Atlético de Madrid (still known as Athletic Club de Madrid). I have been a suburb girl, and I found my best toy in the mud, it was a very ugly dog ​​but newborn, still not walking, I still had my eyes closed. I took it in the clearing trembling excitedly, I took it to my house and hid it in the patio, with my old scarf I made a coat, I baptized him with the neighborhood boys on a Sunday, we named him Pirulín de la Habana, and released a cradle of shoe boxes. When my mother was going to sew around the houses, I made my dog ​​dressed in rags. How sweet my street dog was! My dog ​​lived a lot but one day, in the war, a howitzer for him only undid me on the spot. Although now I travel the world and my world is another, although I suffer slowly, even if I succeed and love me ... I still can't forget it. »Fragment of the biography of Gloria Fuertes written by Jorge de Cascante, editor of The Book of Gloria Fuertes: anthology of poems and life.