Begoña_Aranguren

Begoña Aranguren

Begoña Aranguren

Spanish journalist and writer

María Begoña Aranguren Gárate (born 1949) is a Spanish journalist and writer, the niece of the philosopher José Luis López Aranguren [es].[1]

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Biography

Begoña Aranguren's father, mining engineer Félix Aranguren Sabas (1903–1984), was president of the Board of Directors of Ferromet, SA and Ferroastur, SA. After the Civil War he was chosen to direct the Altos Hornos de Vizcaya in Francoist Spain, which had "survived" it.[2] With his wife, María de las Nieves Gárate Azcárraga (died 1996), he formed a large family of fourteen children – José Félix, Nieves, Luis, Juan Andrés, Purificación, Teresa, José Ignacio, Francisco, Marta, Eduardo, Julio, Joaquín, Begoña, and Eugenia.[2][3] Begoña, the penultimate daughter, began her professional career as a writer for the newspaper Deia. From 1985 to 1989 she conducted 80 interviews with personalities from the world of politics, culture, science, and art, including Julio Caro Baroja, Gabriel Celaya, Pablo Serrano, Núria Espert, and Plácido Domingo. Then, she participated in Euskal Telebista programs. She created Maradentro with producer Isabel Vergarajáuregui Satrústegui, which whom she collaborated at Canal+, directing the program Epílogo, in which she interviewed more than 60 personalities, in the form of an audiovisual testament issued after their death.[4] She received an Ondas Award for this in 1999.[5][6]

In 1999 she married the aristocrat and actor José Luis de Vilallonga, from whom she separated two and a half years later, but they did not legally divorce before his death in 2007.[7][8] She had previously been married to Íñigo Larroque Allende, father of her two children, Íñigo and Jimena.

She is the winner of the 2010 Azorín Novel Prize for her book El amor del rey.[9]

Works

  • El fuego que no quema (Ed. Plaza & Janés, 2000), conversations with José Luis de Vilallonga
  • La mujer en la sombra. La vida junto a los grandes hombres (Ed. Aguilar, 2002)
  • Lucía Bosé. Diva, divina (Ed. Planeta Singular, 2003)
  • Memorias. Emanuela de Dampierre. Esposa y madre de los Borbones que pudieron reinar en España (Ed. La Esfera de los Libros, 2003)
  • Vilallonga, un diamante falso (Ed. La Esfera de los Libros, 2004), testimony of a sentimental relationship
  • Alta sociedad (Ed. Planeta, 2006), the unusual court of Francoism[10]
  • La buena educación (Ed. Planeta, 2007)
  • Toda una vida (Ed. Planeta, 2009)
  • El amor del rey (Ed. Planeta, 2010), Premio Azorín winner in 2010
  • Niño mal de casa bien, el último gozador del siglo XX (Ed. Planeta, 2011)
  • Tras tus pasos (Ed. Planeta, 2014)

References

  1. [1]
    Rodríguez, Juan Carlos (3 March 2002). "Siempre fiel...a Fabricio" [Always Faithful...to Fabricio]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. [2]
    "D. Felix de Aranguren Sabas". ABC (in Spanish). 1 February 1984. p. 77. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Doña Nieves de Gárate y Azcárraga". ABC (in Spanish). 21 October 1996. p. 107. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  4. [4]
    Belmonte, Rosa (8 August 2009). "Epílogo". La Verdad (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  5. [5]
    Romeo, Félix (31 December 2003). "La soledad del intelectual de la comunión de los santos" [The Solitude of the Intellectual of the Communion of Saints] (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  6. [6]
    "Palmarés" (in Spanish). Premios Ondas. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  7. [7]
    Muñoz, Carmen (23 May 2011). "Begoña Aranguren: 'Vilallonga fue el amor de mi vida'" [Begoña Aranguren: 'Vilallonga was the Love of My Life']. La Crónica de Badajoz (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  8. [8]
    "Con ironía y sentido del humor, Begoña Aranguren critica la sociedad actual" [With Irony and a Sense of Humor, Begoña Aranguren Criticizes Today's Society] (in Spanish). Terra.es. EFE. 12 April 2011. Archived from the original on 2 July 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  9. [9]
    "Begoña Aranguren gana el premio Azorín" [Begoña Aranguren Wins the Premio Azorín]. ABC (in Spanish). Alicante. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  10. [10]
    Bacigalupe, Daniel (April 2006). "'Neguri hoy en día no pinta nada'" ['Neguri Does Not Paint Anything Nowadays']. Bilbao (in Spanish). City Council of Bilbao. p. 43. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
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