Julieta Campos (8 May 1932 – 5 September 2007) was a

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n- Mexican writer.

Life

Born in

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, she moved to Mexico in the 1950s after marrying diplomat

Enrique González Pedrero Enrique González Pedrero (7 April 1930 – 6 September 2021) was a Mexican politician, diplomat, and writer. After a long-time militancy in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in 1 ...

. Julieta Campos won the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for her novel, ''Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina'' (1974). From 1978 to 1982 she was the director of the Mexican chapter of the writers' organisation

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. She moved to the state of

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when her husband was elected

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in 1983–1987. In 1989 Campos' husband was appointed director of the

Fondo de Cultura Económica Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE or simply "Fondo") is a Spanish language, non-profit publishing group, partly funded by the Mexican government. It is based in Mexico but it has subsidiaries throughout the Spanish-speaking world. It was founded in ...

(FCE), a publishing concern for which Campos had previously worked as a translator. During the administration of

Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican politician who has been serving as the 65th president of Mexico since 1 December 2018. He previously served as Head of Government of Mex ...

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, she served in López Obrador's cabinet as the local Secretary of Tourism. She died in

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, aged 75, on 5 September 2007 from

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Publications

*''Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina'' (Translated into English by Leland H. Chambers as ''She Has Reddish Hair and Her Name Is Sabrina'', University of Georgia Press, 1993) *''Bajo el signo de IX Bolon'' *''El lujo del Sol'' *''El miedo de perder a Euridíce'' ** *''Tabasco, un Jaguar Despertado'' *''¿Qué Hacemos con los Pobres?'' *''La Forza del Destino'' *''Reunión de Familia'' **''Celina Or the Cats'', translator Leland H. Chambers, Kathleen Ross, Latin American Literary Review Press, 1995,

References

External links

Muere la escritora Julieta Campos
Obituary, '' El Universal'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Campos, Julieta 1932 births 2007 deaths Writers from Havana Writers from Mexico City Writers from Tabasco Deaths from cancer in Mexico Cuban emigrants to Mexico Mexican women novelists Mexican translators 20th-century Mexican novelists 20th-century Mexican women writers 20th-century translators