Luisa Josefina Hernández (2 November 1928 – 16 January 2023) was a Mexican writer and playwright. Hernández died on 16 January 2023, at the age of 94.

Works

Plays

* ''Aguardiente de caña'', 1951. * ''Botica modelo'', 1954. * ''Los frutos caídos'', 1955. * ''Los huéspedes reales'', 1956. * ''La paz ficticia'', 1960. * ''El orden de los factores'', 1983. * ''El amigo secreto'', 1986. * ''Carta de Navegaciones Submarina'', 1987. * ''Habrá poesía'', 1990. * ''Las bodas'', 1993. * ''Zona templada'', 1993. * ''Los grandes muertos'', 1999-2001. * ''Una noche para bruno'', 2007. * ''La fiesta del mulato'', 1966. Translated by William I. Oliver as 'The Mulatto's Orgy', ''Voices of Change in the Spanish American Theater'', Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971, pp.219-55

Novels

* ''Apocalipsis cum figuris'', 1951 * ''El lugar donde crece la hierba'', 1959 * ''Los palacios desiertos'', 1963 * ''La cólera secreta'', 1964 * ''El valle que elegimos'', 1965 * ''La memoria de Amadís'', 1967 * ''La Cabalgata'', 1969 * ''Nostalgia de Troya'', 1970 * ''Apostasía'', 1978

Other

* ''Beckett. Sentido y método de dos obras'', 1997. * ''Una lectura de Yerma de Federico García Lorca'', 2006.

References

1928 births 2023 deaths Mexican dramatists and playwrights Mexican women writers National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico) {{Mexico-bio-stub