Blanca Tejos Muñoz | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Chilean |
Other names | White |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer, teacher |
Years active | 1941 – present |
Spouse | Jesús Aurtenechea Léniz |
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Blanca Tejos Muñoz is a Chilean journalist, writer, and teacher, [1] best known for winning the Lenka Franulic Award in 1964 [2] and the Helena Rubinstein Award in 1967. [3] [4]
Blanca Tejos Muñoz's journalistic career started at the newspaper El Mercurio in 1941 [1] as the third woman journalist to work for the publication in its history. She continued to work for the paper until 1980. [3] [5]
In 1964 she won the second prize of the Carlos Septién Journalism Award from the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica of Madrid. [6] She carried out guild activities within the Chilean Journalists Association , 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. [7]