Melania Cabello

Melania Cabello (February 9, 1887 – April 22, 1943) was an Argentine writer known worldwide for creating the pioneering adventure and crime stories book franchise Najat, which she wrote 32 volumes during 1910 and 1941, when he decided to end the franchise due to his cancer treatment. Najat is a pioneer due to the female protagonism of the collection, whose main characters are all women, being an Arab journalist, a poet of African ancestry, a French scientist, and a Spanish playwright, the work is treated as one of the first strongholds of feminism, although Melania never took a position for or against feminism.

Early years
Melania Cabello was born on February 9, 1887, in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina, the first of two girls, who together with 4 other men, being overall the 4th child of María de las Mercedes and Ernesto Cabello. Her mother and father were an extremely Catholic couple, and gave Melania a religious education, having placed the girl in the seminary since she was 4 years old, and although Cabello had no interest in being a nun, she stayed in the seminary until the end of her studies in 1907, and like it or not, his religious education greatly amplified her religious knowledge.

The girl Melania was notable however for her creative ability and also spelling and writing, she acquired due to a regime that all of the children of María de las Mercedes and Ernesto were forced to read every day at least 4 pages of any book, since they wanted their children to be highly literate. Her first traits as a writer emerged during her studies, as she used to produce sonnets and also stood out for creating scripts for school plays, she also started reading crime story books, which made her also very skilled in creating crime fiction scripts.

After finishing her studies, Melania decided to bet on her career as a writer, having moved to Buenos Aires, where she got a job at the newspaper , writing serials, poems and chronicles. She, however, was not satisfied and decided to look for a publisher to publish a book, but before looking for this publisher, he wrote the book in question, thus emerged Najat and the Hypertheorema, the first book of the collection Najat, written in 1910.

1. Najat and the Hypertheorema (1910)
Najat first book introduces us to the character, Najat Abitbot, an Arab woman who earns her living as a journalist, working in a newspaper in the Trucial States (now the United Arab Emirates), she also works in the police—in editions and translations made since the 70s, Najat is said to work at Interpol—as a detective, she lives in a chateau inherited from her father, where in her absence it is looked after by a housekeeper, Azza Jalili, a woman of African descent who, in contrast to the real situation of black people at the time, was educated and was also a respected poet.