Tedi López Mills is a Mexican

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born in 1959 in Mexico City. She began her undergraduate studies in

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at the

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for three years before completing her degree at the

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in Paris. She later completed postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in Latin American literature. She is among the contemporary Mexican writers that propose a turn toward the aesthetic of Mexican colloquial language.

Recognition

* Efraín Huerta National Prize for Poetry, 1994. *

José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares or simply Premio José Fuentes Mares) is a Mexican literary award that has been presented annually since 1985 by the Universidad Autónoma ...

, 2006. *

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, 2009. * Antonin Artaud Narrative Prize, 2013. * She received the first poetry grant from the now-defunct Octavio Paz Foundation in 1998, a grant from Jóvenes Creadores oung Creatorsin 1994, and currently belongs to the

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Works

* ''Cinco estaciones ive seasons', 1989. * ''Un lugar ajeno n unfamiliar place', 1993. * ''Segunda persona econd person', 1994 (Efraín Huerta National Prize for Poetry). * ''Glosas losses', 1997. * ''Horas

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', 2000. * ''Luz por aire y agua ight by air and water', 2002. * ''Un jardín, cinco noches (y otros poemas) ne garden, five nights (and other poems)', 2005. * ''Contracorriente ountercurrent', 2006 (José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature). * ''Parafrasear araphrasing', 2008. * ''Muerte en la rúa Augusta eath on Augusta street', 2009 (Xavier Villaurrutia Award). * ''Amigo del perro cojo he lame dog's friend', 2014. * She has also written a book on French poet

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: ''La noche en blanco de Mallarmé, y una colección de ensayos narrativos: Libro de las explicaciones allarmé's sleepless night, and a collection of narrative essays: Book of explanations' (Antonin Artaud Narrative Prize). * ''La invención de un diario he invention of a diary' (Almadía). In May 2014, her book ''Muerte en la rúa Augusta'' was published in English translation (titled ''Death on Rua Augusta'') by the English publisher Eyewear Publishing.

References

Articles in the magazine ''Letras Libres''.
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