2023-10-31 18:10:47
The Extremaduran historian Encarnacion Lemus Lopez has been awarded this Tuesday with the National History Award of Spainendowed with 30,000 euros, for his work ‘They. The students of the Ladies’ Residence‘, a book that offers a “renewed” look at this institution.
As reported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports this Tuesday, Lemus (Villafranca de los Barros, 1960), has been the winner of this year’s edition of the National History Prize also for, according to the jury’s assessment, because ‘They. The students of the Ladies’ Residence are a choral biography “written with great elegance and with an original approach”.
“Es a generational and socio-professional portrait of those Spanish women who led an authentic revolution. Women – the jury added – who broke the mold, nurturing the first avant-garde of professions until then prohibited to the female presence.
Furthermore, the jury has indicated that Lemus López, “with an enormous documentary effort and relying on alternative sources”, let the real protagonists take their voice, “thirteen hundred women who mostly came to Madrid from other parts of Spain to begin a true social and cultural transformation.
Lemus is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Huelva and it has been professor at the Universities of Santiago and Valparaíso in Chile and at the University of Puerto Rico, at Denis-Diderot Paris 7 and at the University of Michiganas well as a Researcher at the Institute of Present Time in Paris.
He is part of the Editorial Board of the magazine Andalucía en la Historia and the Permanent Seminar on Contemporary History of the Center for Andalusian Studies.
Among her works on Women’s History, stand out ‘Postwar Republicans‘and in relation to the republican exile’The republican exile in Chile‘.
The jury was chaired by Jesús González Gonzálezdeputy director general of Promotion of Books, Reading and Spanish Literature.
As vowels Enrique Moradiellos García, proposed by the Royal Academy of History, has performed; Star of Diego Otero, by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando; Ricardo Sanmartín Arce, for the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences; María Soledad Campos Díez, for the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and Arturo Rodríguez Castellanos, for the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences.
They complete the jury Concepción Mir Curcó, for the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE); Juan Caño Díaz, for the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE) or Ofelia Rey Castelao, awarded in the 2022 call, among others.
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