Hortensia Blanch Pita
Mexican writer
Hortensia Blanch Pita (1 December 1914 – 21 August 2004) was a writer who was born in Cuba and lived in Spain and Mexico. She wrote a noted book about the end of the Spanish Civil War that was published in Mexico. She wrote under the name Silvia Mistral . She had a lifelong interest in film and she died in Mexico.
Life
Blanch was born in Havana on 1 December 1914. Her parents were Catalan and Galician. From 1920 to 1926 the family lived in the area known as Terra Chá in Galicia. After this they returned to Cuba until Spain declared the 2nd Republic and they moved to Barcelona in Catalonia. Blanch's job was in a chemical company but her passion was film. She ended up working for Paramount Pictures and Metro Pictures in Spain.
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