Fina de Calderón

Fina de Calderón (August 21, 1927 Madrid- January 12, 2010 Madrid) was a Spanish writer, poet, songwriter, and musician.[1][2][3][4]

Her song "Caracola" ("Conch") was the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, performed by Los TNT.[5]

Life

She grew up in France. As a youth, she studied violin and composed her first poems. She moved to Toledo, and was owner of Cigarral del Ángel.[6]

She married Fernando Calderon Gutierrez, Marquis of Mozobamba del Pozo, and they had three children, José Rafael, Mariola and Giovanna.

Fuego, grito, luna (Fire, cry, moon), (theater)
Los pasos que no regresan. Huerga Y Fierro Editores. 2004. ISBN 978-84-8374-473-4. (The steps do not come back) (Memoir)

La cicatriz de arena (The scar of sand) (poetry)
Pluriels (Plurales) Fugger Libros, SIAL Ediciones, 2006, ISBN 978-84-96464-18-6 (poems bilingual French / Spanish)[7]
Canciones infantiles. Illustrator Alain Durand. Ediciones de la Torre. 2007. ISBN 978-84-7960-382-3.CS1 maint: others (link)
La sed que dura. Huerga Y Fierro Editores. 2002. ISBN 978-84-8374-365-2.
Glorieta de la melancolía. Huerga Y Fierro Editores. 1998. ISBN 978-84-8374-040-8.
Vencejos, aunque ruiseñores. Ediciones de la Torre. 1994. ISBN 978-84-7960-072-3.

"En Roma (Rome)"
"La otra mitad (The other half)"
"Pouvoir" (song by Édith Piaf)
"Nous de Paris" (song by Maurice Chevalier)
"Caracola (Conch)"
"Primer plano (Foreground)" (song by Víctor Manuel in 1966)
Mis Canciones Festivaleras de los años 60. Ediciones de la Torre. 2007. ISBN 978-84-7960-383-0. (My festival-goers songs of the 60's)"

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