María Wiesse

María Jesús Isabel Wiesse Romero (19 November 1894 in Lima – 29 July 1964 in Lima) was a Peruvian poet, writer, essayist, anthologist, and film critic.

Early life and education María Wiesse was born on 19 November 1894 in Lima. Her parents were Teresa Romero Paz and Carlos Wiesse Portocarrero, a historian and a professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Wiesse spent her childhood in Lausanne, Switzerland and later in London, where her father worked as a lawyer for the Peruvian Corporation. Later she collaborated with the newspapers La Prensa and El Tiempo.

Around 1923 Wiesse founded the National Council of Women of Peru. Between 1923 and 1926, Wiesse traveled constantly outside Peru, she is even a source of study of the work of her husband’s travel book that he wrote about the visit that both made to Mexico, with annotations of the cultural life and the rapprochement to the social environment of that country. Amauta magazine was focused on the influence of cinema on the social and cultural environment of Lima, and Wiesse published there her reviews on films and music, as well as other related articles.

Apart from producing her own publications, Wiesse was a regular contributor to several magazines such as Variedades, Mundial, Social, Hora del Hombre, Messenger in agriculture, Almanaque Agropecuario del Perú, and in newspapers such as La Crónica.

María Wiesse died on 29 July 1964 in Lima.

Personal life In 1922, she married the painter José Sabogal (1888-1956), with whom she had two children: José Rodolfo Sabogal Wiesse (1923-1983) and Rosa Teresa Sabogal Wiesse (1925-1985).

Published works

Travel diary

Croquis de viaje, (Lima, 1923)

Poetry

Motivos líricos (con maderas originales de José Sabogal), (1924) Nocturnos, (Lima, 1925) Glosas franciscanas (con maderas originales de José Sabogal), (Lima, 1926) Trébol de cuatro hojas, (Lima, 1932) Canciones, Lima, Imprenta Lux, mayo de 1934; Estancias, Lima, 1945; Rosa de los vientos, Lima, 1949; Jabirú (diversiones al margen de la poesía), (Lima, 1951)

Novels

La huachafita (ensayo de novela limeña), (Lima, 1927) Rosario (historia de una niña), (Lima, 1929) Diario sin fechas (novela), (Lima, 1948) Tríptico, (Lima, 1953)

Stories

Nueve relatos (con maderas de José Sabogal), (Lima, 1933) Quipus, (relatos peruanos para niños), (Lima, 1936) Aves nocturnas, (Lima, 1941) El mar y los piratas, (Lima, 1947) La flauta de Marsías (leyendas de la música), (Lima, 1950) Pequeñas historias, (Lima, 1951) Linterna mágica, (1954) La torre bermeja, (1955) El pez de oro y otras historietas absurdas, (Lima, 1958)

Theater

La hermana mayor (comedia en un acto y tres cuadros); El modistón (entremés), (Lima, 1918)

Biographies

Santa Rosa de Lima, Lima, Casa Editorial F. y E. Rosay, 1922. José María Córdova (1799-1829, ensayo biográfico). Lima, Tip. de la "Voce d'Italia", 1924. La romántica vida de Mariano Melgar (con maderas de José Sabogal). Lima, Club del Libro Peruano, 1939. José Carlos Mariátegui (etapas de su vida), (Lima, 1945) José Sabogal, el artista y el hombre, (Lima, 1957)

Essays

La cruz y el Sol (ensayo sobre mitos religiosos del antiguo Perú), (Lima, 1943) Viaje al país de la música, (Lima, 1943) Lima, (Lima, Ediciones Contur, 1946) El niño, ese desconocido, (Lima, 1949) El mensaje de la música, (Lima, 1952) Vida del Perú y de su pueblo (ensayo), (Lima, 1958)

Anthologies

Antología de la poesía amorosa peruana, Lima, Ediciones Hora del Hombre, 1946.