Julieta Campos

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Julieta Campos (born May 8, 1932 in Havana , † September 5, 2007 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican writer and translator of Cuban origin.

Campus met the Mexican politician and writer Enrique González Pedrero while studying at the University of Havana and married him shortly afterwards. When her husband went back to his homeland, she went with him.

Between 1978 and 1982 Campos headed the Mexican writers' association PEN

In 1983 her husband won the gubernatorial elections in Tabasco and they lived in the capital, Villahermosa , until 1987 . During this time Campos worked as a translator for the Mexican publisher Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE).

The politician Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed her in 2000 as head of the tourism authority in his cabinet.

At the age of 75, Julieta Campos died of cancer on September 5 in Mexico City, where she also found her final resting place.

Honors

  • 1974 Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for her novel "Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina"

Works (selection)

  • Bajo el signo de IX bolon . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Villahermosa 1988, ISBN 978-968-889-112-4 .
  • La forza del destino . Alfaguara, Mexico 2004, ISBN 968-19-1312-4 .
  • El lujo de sol . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Villahermosa 1988.
  • ¿Qué hacemos con los pobres? La reiterada querella por la nación . 3rd edition Aguilar, Mexico 1996, ISBN 968-19-0256-4 .
  • Reunion de Familia . Fondo de Cultura Económica, Villahermosa 1997, ISBN 968-16-4964-8 .
  • Tabasco, un Jaguar despertado. Alternatively, as para la pobreza . Aguilar, Mexico 1996, ISBN 968-190296-3 .
  • Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina . 2nd ed. Mortiz, Mexico 1978, ISBN 968-27-0027-2 .

literature

  • Evelyn P. Garfield: "Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina" by Julieta Campos. Una caída interminable en la movilidad . In: ECO , No. 248 (1982), pp. 172-191.
  • Luzelena Gutiérrez de Velasco: De islas, escrituras y mujeres. La poética de Julieta Campos . In: Iztapalapa. Revista de ciencias sociales y humanidades , vol. 23 (2002), no. 52, pp. 142-148.
  • Alicia Rivero-Potter: The role of the reader in Julieta Campos' "Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina" . In: Hispania , Vol. 73 (1990), No. 3, pp. 633-640.
personal data
SURNAME Campos, Julieta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2007
Place of death Mexico city