Carmela Gutiérrez de Gambra (, María del Carmen Gutiérrez Sánchez; 1921 - Madrid, 31 July 1984), was a Spanish scholar, translator, writer, and Christian feminist. Between 1948 and 1971, she was author of more than 40 novels. Most of these were romance novels using the pseudonyms of Miguel Arazuri, André Ronsac, Clara San Miguel, Alice Norton, and Enid Colman. Her husband was the traditionalist teacher, writer and philosopher Rafael Gambra Ciudad.
Biography María del Carmen Gutiérrez Sánchez was born in 1921. Her nickname was "Carmela", a name with which she even signed some of her translations.
She was a professor of Geography and History at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute in Madrid, a profession that she combined with her career as a translator of French and English. She was also the author of mainly romantic novels, under the pseudonyms of Miguel Arazuri, André Ronsac, Clara San Miguel, Alice Norton and Enid Colman. She werote some 30 novels, some of them forming part of a wider entity.
Gutierrez was also the founder and manager of Fundación Stella, an independent radio station.Manuel Santa Cruz [Alberto Ruiz de Galarreta], "Rafael Gambra. un hombre cabal", Anales de la Fundación Francisco Elías de Tejada, 2004 (10), p. 176
She married Rafael Gambra Ciudad, and the couple had three children, Andrés, José Miguel and Irene, all of them becoming teachers.Luis Hernando de Larramendi, 2004, "Rafael Gambra Ciudad 1920-2004", filosofia.org, p. 172 Of their two sons, Andrés Gambra Gutiérrez is professor of medieval historyIn UCM, UNED, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Colegio Universitario Domingo de Soto (Segovia), Universidad Francisco (Vitoria) and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, see D. Andrés Gambra Gutiérrez, [in:] Universidad Rey Juan Carlos service, available here; for some of his works see dialnet.unirioja service, available here and the university official,Secretario general and member of Consejo de Gobierno, D. Andrés Gambra Gutierrez, [in:] Universidad Rey Juan Carlos service, available here while José Miguel Gambra Gutiérrez is scholar in philosophy,See Profesores del Departamento, [in:] Universidad Complutense, Departamento de Lógica y Filosófia de la Ciencia service, available here; for some of his works see dialnet.unirioja service, available here both in Madrid. The two are active Traditionalists,See e.g. Andrés Gambra, acting as official at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, in public confronting marginalisation of Christianity and deification of progress, La Razón 15.02.11, available here the latter leading the sixtinos Carlists since 2010.See e.g. José Miguel Gambra, nuevo jefe de la Sec. Política de S.A.R. Don Sixto Enrique Bornón, [in:] Radio Cristianidad service 09.03.10, available here
Selected works
As Miguel Arazuri Tesoro escondido (1948) Los apuros de Tica (1949) El segundo piso (1957) La puerta de Adán (1957) Irene (1958) La rata blanca (1959) Para que nunca lo sepas (1959) Yo soy el malo (1959) Águeda (1960) No vale descansar (1960) Dale fuego al chaparral (1961) El hipócrita (1961) Se necesita un culpable (1961) Ella, él y cinco millones (1962) La mentira (1963) Me acuerdo de Ana (1963) Todo menos el amor (1963) La hechizada (1964) La bruja (1965) El jardín de las mentiras (1968) Rapsodia en miedo (1968) La paloma negra (1970) La mujer de Roque Bravo (1970) El cuarto mandamiento (1971)
Marcos series Marcos I (1962) Marcos II (1962)
El hombre de la boina blanca series Dulce Isabel (1964) El bandolero (1964) Estrellas negras (1965)
La deuda series Nieves (1965) Claudia (1965) Alba (1965)
El hijo de Juan Osorio series El hijo de Juan Osorio. Tomo I (1967) El hijo de Juan Osorio. Tomo II (1967)
As André Ronsac 3 llamadas telefónicas (1953) Con alma prestada (1954) Aunque duela… (1956) Amor a primera vista (1961)
As Clara San Miguel ¡Quiero ser guapa…! (1964) La segunda novia (1964)
As Alice Norton Mi corazón como cebo (1964)
As Enid Coleman Piel de pantera (1966)
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