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Lota España (born Dolores González Pérez, 8 December 1891 in Humilladero, Málaga, date of death 17 June 1973, Málaga) was a writer from Málaga who enjoyed recognition and prestige in the first half of the 20th century, with many publications in local and national magazines, until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, when she stopped publishing her poems and short stories.

Biography
Dolores González Pérez was born on 8 December 1891 in the town of Humilladero in Malaga, where she spent her early years. At the beginning of the 20th century her family moved to Tenerife, where a still very young Lolita González Pérez published her first collection of poems in 1915.

From the islands, she expresses in her poems her love for her native Malaga and Andalusia, and her desire to return, despite the love he also felt for the islands.

On her return to the peninsula, she began to use the nickname of Lota España and we find some of her first poems and articles in various publications of the time, both in the city of Malaga and in Melilla and Madrid.

Her love of poetry and literature always kept her close to the literary circles of the time, Rubén Darío, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rafael Alberti...

As Lota España she published a large number of poems and articles, as well as short stories and even a short novel, La voz del terruño, until 1936, when she published a poem dedicated to the anarchist Urruti when Franco's troops were about to take the city of Malaga. This was her last publication, as once Malaga was taken by Franco's troops, Lota España left the capital to live in the Malaga municipality of Benamargosa and stopped publishing.

In the 1950s, he returned to live in the city of Malaga, where he died on 17 June 1973, aged 81.

Works
Lota España was a prolix poet and storyteller with a great mastery of lexis and style. Her poems are influenced by her most admired poets: Bécquer, Juan Ramón and, above all, Rubén Darío, from whom she imbibed a late Modernism that she never abandoned, although she did evolve into other poetic forms throughout her life.

Hes poems are songs of love and life, of solidarity, in which the goodness of the human being and the Christian faith take centre stage, as well as nature in particular.


 * Narrative: Lota España published in Madrid a short novel called La voz del terruño, undated, although it is estimated to have been around 1930. The novel tells the story of two lovers set against each other by a world that was divided in two: modernity and tradition confront each other in this interesting tale in which the writer demonstrates great skill in narrative.
 * Publications in magazines and newspapers of the period: the great majority of the texts that are known and published belong to the corpus of poems, short stories, tales, chronicles, articles and journalistic essays that were published in the press. Magazines such as La unión ilustrada, Lecturas, Vida Marroquí, Cruz Roja, Vida nueva, among others.


 * Poetry: Notas perdidas is the only collection of poems published by the author. It was published in 1915 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and has a praiseworthy prologue by Don Francisco de Cosmelli y Sotomayor.

Although she stopped publishing in 1936, Lota España did not stop writing throughout her life, and her output is currently being studied, compiled and analysed by Dolores Vela García as part of the University of Seville's "Hidden Andalusian Women" research group, directed by Mercedes Arriaga.

A new book will be published in 2022, a critical edition, which will bring together his published and unpublished texts, under the aforementioned research framework Hidden Andalusian Women.

Bibliography:

Lota España. Poesía y prosa de una malagueña olvidada. Estudio introductorio y edición de María Dolores Gutiérrez Navas. AEDILE, Málaga, 2004. ISBN: 84-921919-8-8