Adela Calva Reyes (1967 – 2 March 2018) was an indigenous Mexican writer, author and playwright of the
Otomi people
The Otomi (; es, Otomí ) are an indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region.
The Otomi are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguisticall ...
.
Biography
Adela was born in 1967 in
San Ildefonso
San Ildefonso (), La Granja (), or La Granja de San Ildefonso, is a town and municipality in the Province of Segovia, in the Castile and León autonomous region of central Spain.
It is located in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mounta ...
, Tepejí del Río, State of Hidalgo. She remembered poverty in her childhood.
She died on March 4, 2018 in
Pachuca
Pachuca (; ote, Nju̱nthe), formally known as Pachuca de Soto, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is located in the south-central part of the state. Pachuca de Soto is also the name of the municipality of whic ...
, State of Hidalgo.
Works
* Ra hua ra hiä ''Alas a la palabra'' (2008, Conaculta)
See also
*
Otomi language
Otomi (; ) is an Oto-Pamean languages, Oto-Pamean language family spoken by approximately 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the Mexican Plateau, central ''altiplano'' region of Mexico. Otomi consists of several closely related languages, many ...
References
1967 births
2018 deaths
Writers from Hidalgo (state)
Native American women writers
Otomi people
Indigenous Mexican women
20th-century Native Americans
21st-century Native Americans
20th-century Native American women
21st-century Native American women
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