Rosario Castellanos
Born in Mexico City on May 25, 1925. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Comitán, Chiapas; died in Tel Aviv on August 7, 1974. She held a degree and was a teacher in philosophy from UNAM. Awarded a scholarship by the Institute of Hispanic Culture, she studied a postgraduate course on aesthetics at the University of Madrid. She was a cultural promoter at the Institute of Sciences and Arts in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas; director of Puppet Theater at the Tzeltal-Tzotzil Coordinating Center, at the National Indigenous Institute in San Cristóbal, Chiapas; general director of Information and Press at UNAM, 1960-66; professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM, 1962-71. Rockefeller Ambassador at the Mexican Center for Writers, 1954-55. Carlos Trouyet Literature Award, 1967; Elías Sourasky Literature Award, 1972. Her work has been included in various anthologies and translated into several languages.
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