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Article: Myopia and the (fe)male gaze in Yolanda Pallin's La mirada and ?Entiendes?
- Article from:
- West Virginia University Philological Papers
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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In Madrid's circle of alternative theater, Yolanda Pallin is the best-known woman dramatist of the last decade. (1) Since 1992 when her first play, Hiel, premiered in Madrid, Pallin has authored more than one play per year, and most of her works have been staged and published. (2) Three of her plays have received major critical attention in the form of theater prizes. In 1995 La mirada was a finalist for the Marques de Bradomin Prize for young dramatists and Los restos de la noche won the Maria Teresa Leon Prize for Women Playwrights. The following year Los motivos de Anselmo Fuentes was awarded the prestigious Calder6n de la Barca Prize. Virtudes Serrano has observed that ...