Certamen de relatos breves de suspense y terror

Con motivo del aniversario del nacimiento de Agatha Christie y de Robert L. Stevenson se convoca desde el plan de Fomento de la Lectura y desde el Departamento de Lengua un concurso de relatos cortos. Las bases del concurso están expuestas en cada aula y os animamos a participar. Los relatos premiados serán leídos en la radio del I.E.S. Gaviota.

Autores de la exposición:

Ivette López Galdeano
Ma Mar Crespo Jiménez
2º E.S.O.

María Sánchez Vargas
Mercedes Pomares Sabio
2º Bach

Sergio Rivera Fernández
Emilio Galdeano López
2º Bach

Agatha Christie

Agatha was born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay (Devon, England). Her father died when she was eleven years old and her mother gave him lessons at home, encouraging her to write from a very young. At the age of 16 years, she went to the school of the lady Dryden, in Paris, to study singing, dance and piano.
Her first marriage was in 1914 with colonel Archibald Christie. They had a daughter, Rosalind. They divorced in 1928 because of an infidelity of her husband.
During the First World war, Agatha worked in a hospital, and this influenced her work: many of the murders she writes about are carried out by poisons.
In 1930 she married the archeologist Max Mallowan, 14 years younger than her.
In 1961 she was made a member of the Royal Company of Literature and an honorary doctor in Letters of the University of Exeter.
In 1971 she was granted the title of Lady of the British Empire.
Agatha Christie died of natural causes on January 12, 1976, at the age of 85, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. She is buried in the cemetery of St. Mary’s church, in Cholsey.
LITERARY PRODUCTION
Christie published more than eighty novels and theatre plays. The majority of her novels and plays have made into films, some on more than one occasion, such as ‘Asesinato en el Orient Express’ and ‘Muerte en el Nilo’.
Agatha Christie wrote from the end of the First World war, when she created her character Hercules Poirot, and since then one of the most popular detectives since Sherlock Holmes. Poirot and his other detectives such, as Miss Marple, have also appeared also in numerous movies radio, programs radio and theatrical representations based on Agatha Christie's books.
Also being a writer of novels of detectives, Agatha Christie wrote 6 romantic some theatrical works and a book of poems, under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott.



OTHERS WORKS
 1937 Murder in the Mews (cuatro relatos con Hércules Poirot)
 1971 The Golden Ball and Other Stories (quince relatos)
 1973 Akhnaton - A play in three acts
 1979 Últimos casos de la señorita Marple
 1997 While the Light Lasts and Other Stories


WORKS LIKE MARY WESTMACOTT
 1930 Giant's Bread
 1934 Unfinished Portrait
 1944 Absent in the Spring
 1948 The Rose and the Yew Tree
 1952 A Daughter's a Daughter
 1956 The Burden


HER WORK IN THE CINEMA
Various productions have been made based literally or of a freer form on her stories in which she was the direct figure and tried to explain the real event related to her mysterious disappearance for several days in the decade of the 50s.
‘Sugestión mortal’ (1937, Rowland V. Lee) and ‘Diez Negritos’ (1944, René Clair) are the first important adaptations by Christie, the first one being a good drama of mystery and the second one, a small masterpiece of the cinema of suspense with unforgettable actors. Then ‘El Tren de las 4.50’ whose success initiated a series of films centred on the cases of Miss Marple, interpreted masterfully by Margaret Rutherford; then other famous stars continued ‘Asesinato en el Orient Express’ (1974, Sidney Lumet), with an Oscar for Ingrid Bergman, ‘Muerte en el Nilo’ (1979, John Guillermin) with the Peter Ustinov's first appearance personifying the detective Hercules Poirot.
Also on the small screen one must mention an English series: ‘Matrimonio de sabuesos’ (Partners in crime), of 1982.



MORE ABOUT AGATHA CHRISTIE
The queen of crime, the lady of the mystery, the writer most translated in the whole world. Agatha Christie is possibly the most famous writer of novels on detectives.
From a child, she already had a great imagination. She had always developed a great creativity, and she often played with the characters that she invented. Nevertheless, not all her infancy was happy. When she was small, her father died and the family had a small crisis.
As a young woman she also travelled to Egypt, where she was fascinated by the whole oriental culture, an interest that later would show in her novels ( ‘Cita con la muerte ‘ or ‘Asesinato en Mesopotamia’ ).
But, one of the major influences that she had in her infancy was her work as a nurse. In this work she learned all the secrets of toxicology, learned the doses necessary for poisoning, knew thoroughly all the poisons, was in constant contact with their symptoms and consequences... In the end, Agatha Christie ended up for being an expert in the world of poisons. And, certainly, she applied this knowledge many times in her novels, in numerous murders.
Can you guess what she did when she started obtaining her first income? Nothing more and nothing less than to buy a car. And it is that, so it is said, that Agatha Christie was carried away by cars, she loved driving her.
But between these crazy adventures and small progresses she also had misfortunes and depressions. For example, her dear mother died, plunging her in a serious depression. And for if it was not sufficient, in this epoch her husband told her that he was in love with another woman and that he was leaving her. Big blows in the life of this writer, but she didn’t allow her work to deteriorate. Agatha, with renewed forces, published a bit later one of her more acclaimed, novels ‘Roger Ackroyd's murder ‘.



‘Sadness is the cradle of inspiration of every writer’ - Agatha Christie.