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Chilean journalist
Blanca Tejos Muñoz
BornChile
NationalityChilean
Other namesWhite
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer, teacher
Years active1941 – present
SpouseJesús Aurtenechea Léniz
Awards

Blanca Tejos Muñoz is a Chilean journalist, writer, and teacher, best known for winning the Lenka Franulic Award in 1964 and the Helena Rubinstein Award in 1967.

Career

Blanca Tejos Muñoz's journalistic career started at the newspaper El Mercurio in 1941 as the third woman journalist to work for the publication in its history. She continued to work for the paper until 1980.

In 1964 she won the second prize of the Carlos Septién Journalism Award from the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica [es] of Madrid. She carried out guild activities within the Chilean Journalists Association [es], being elected president of the Metropolitan Council in 1976. In the field of narrative, in 1997 she published Miscelánea cuentos y crónicas under the pseudonym White.

She married Jesús Aurtenechea Léniz, who died on 11 March 2010.

References

  1. ^ Valdebenito, Alfonso (1956). Historia del periodismo chileno: 1812–1955 [History of Chilean Journalism: 1812–1955] (in Spanish). Fantasia. p. 305. Retrieved 27 November 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. "Listado de todos los periodistas premiados" [Listing of All Award-Winning Journalists] (in Spanish). Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Faculty of Journalism. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  3. ^ "No sólo para mí" [Not Just For Me]. Ercilla (in Spanish). 1967. p. 6. Retrieved 27 November 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. "Hace 30 Años" [30 Years Ago]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 1 December 2002. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. Tejos, Blanca (6 November 1999). "Rosita Robinovich". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  6. "Concesión del Premio Carlos Septién" [Carlos Septién Journalism Award Given]. ABC (in Spanish). 11 June 1964. p. 76. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  7. Tejos de Aurtenechea, Blanca (24 December 2011). "In memoriam". El Mercurio (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 November 2017.


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