María Luisa Mendoza (17 May 1930 – 29 June 2018), also known as La China Mendoza, was a Mexican journalist, novelist and politician. She served as a federal delegate from the state of Guanajuato to the 53rd Mexican legislature (01 Sep 1985 – 31 Aug 1988).

Biography

María Luisa Mendoza was born on 17 May 1930 in

Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...

, Mexico. She studied Spanish literature at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

(UNAM); interior design at Universidad Femenina de México; and scenery design at the

National Institute of Fine Arts The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL, en, National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature), located in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the Mexican institution in charge of coordinating artistic and cultural ...

(INBA). She began her career writing as a journalist for ''El Zocalo'', collaborating with the cultural paper ''El Gallo Ilustrado'', and co-founding ''El Día''. She also published with ''Cine Mundial'', ''Excélsior'', ''Fin de Semana'', ''Mujer de Hoy'', ''Revista Mujeres'', ''Novedades'', ''El Sol de México'', ''El Universal'', and ''El Zócalo''. Between 1968 and 1969, Mendoza was a fellow at the Centro Mexicano de Escritores (Center of Mexican Writers). Besides writing, Mendoza has taught both set design and journalism, and served as the secretary of the Awards Commission of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. She has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA) since 1997. She has worked in television, as a news reporter and served as a politician to the federal 53rd legislature from the state of Guanajuato.

Death and legacy

Mendoza wrote her last column on 23 June 2018 and died 29 June 2018 in Mexico City at the Hospital de Nutrición.

Awards

* 1971 Magda Donato Prize for ''Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres'' * 1972 National Journalism Prize and Bernal Díaz del Castillo Prize for ''Crónicas de Chile'' * 1973 Award from the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) for the best television commentary (for the news show ''24 hours'') on drug addiction * 1974 Honorable Mention for a series of news reports sent from the USSR to ''El Universal'' * 1975 Francisco Zarco Prize for periodical works of national interest (articles appeared in US magazines ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Good Housekeeping'', and ''Vanity'') * 1983 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Award from the Congress of the State of Guanajuato * 1984 National Journalism Prize for her program “Un Día un Escritor” on Channel 13 and lifetime achievements * 2001 National Novel Prize José Rubén Romero for ''De amor y lujo''

Selected works

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: : ''La O por lo redondo'', México, Grijalbo, 1971. : ''Trompo a la uña'', artículos periodísticos de 1981 a 1989, México, Gobierno del estado de Tabasco, Los que Escriben la Historia, 1989. * Biography: : ''Tris de sol'' (sobre

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), México, Presidencia de la República, 1976. : ''María Luisa Mendoza. De cuerpo entero: Menguas y contrafuertes'' (autobiografía), México, UNAM/Corunda, 1991. * Short Story: : ''Ojos de papel volando'', México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1985 * Essay: : ''Crítica de la crítica'', México, UNAM, 1966. : ''Qué pasa con el teatro en México?'', México, Novaro, 1971. : ''2 palabras 2'' (en colaboración con Edmundo Domínguez Aragonés), México, Presidencia de la República, 1972. : ''Oiga usted!'', Samo, 1973. : ''Maquinita de hacer ruido'' (dibujos de Carmen Parra), edición del autor, 1973. : ''Las cosas'', México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1976. : ''El teatro Juárez'', México, Universidad de Guanajuato, 1978. : ''El retrato de mi gentedad'', México, Guanajuato,

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(INAH)/Museo de la Alhóndiga de Granaditas, 1980. *

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: : ''Compañero Presidente'' (sobre Salvador Allende), cortometraje,

Festival Cervantino The Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC), popularly known as ''El Cervantino'', is a festival which takes place each fall in the city of Guanajuato, located in central Mexico. The festival originates from the mid 20th century, when short play ...

, 1975. : ''Carta a una amiga'', cortometraje, 1973. : ''

a la vista!'', cortometraje, Festival Cervantino 1974. : ''Guanajuato a tiro de sangre'', cortometraje, Festival Cervantino 1975. *

Novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

: : ''Con él, conmigo, con nosotros tres'', México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1971. : ''De ausencia'', México, Joaquín Mortiz, 197

: ''El perro de la escribana'', México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1980. * Journalism: : ''Crónicas de Chile'', México, El Día, 1972. : ''Allende el bravo (en colaboración con Edmundo Domínguez Aragonés), México, Diana, 1973. : ''Ra, Re, Ri, Ro, Rusia! la

URSS URSS is an alternative spelling of USSR. In other languages, it stands for ''Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas'' (Spanish), ''Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques'' (French), ''Unyon ng mga Republikang Sosyalistang Sobyet'' ( ...

'', México, Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), 1974.

References

External links

María Luisa Mendoza recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on May 23, 1978
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