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  Ray Bradbury

  Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
  
  Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were ada

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  Pablo Neruda

  Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. From an early age, he showed a deep passion for poetry, publishing his first works as a teenager. He adopted the pen name Pablo Neruda to avoid disapproval from his father, who discouraged his literary ambitions. His breakthrough came with Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, 1924), a collection of deeply emotional and sensual poetry that gained international recognition and remains one of his most celebrated works.
  Neruda’s career took him beyond literature into diplomacy, a path that a

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  Fernando Pessoa

  Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.
  
  It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they h

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  Gabriel García Márquez

  Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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  William Gaddis

  William Gaddis was the author of five novels. He was born in New York December 29, 1922. The circumstances why he left Harvard in his senior year are mysterious. He worked for The New Yorker for a spell in the 1950s, and absorbed experiences at the bohemian parties and happenings, to be later used as material in The Recognitions. Travel provided further resources of experience in Mexico, in Costa Rica, in Spain and Africa and, perhaps strangest to imagine of him, he was employed for a few years in public relations for a pharmaceutical corporation.
  
  The number of printed interviews with Gaddis can be counted on one hand: he wondered why anyone should expect an author to be at all interesting, after having very likely projected the best of them

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  Juan Rulfo

  Juan Perez Rulfo
  
  Juan Rulfo nació el 16 de mayo de 1917 Él sostuvo que esto ocurrió en la casa familiar de Apulco, Jalisco, aunque fue registrado en la ciudad de Sayula, donde se conserva su acta de nacimiento. Vivió en la pequeña población de San Gabriel, pero las tempranas muertes de su padre, primero (1923), y de su madre poco después (1927), obligaron a sus familiares a inscribirlo en un internado en Guadalajara, la capital del estado de Jalisco.
  
  Durante sus años en San Gabriel entró en contacto con la biblioteca de un cura (básicamente literaria), depositada en la casa familiar, y recordará siempre estas lecturas, esenciales en su formación literaria. Algunos acostumbran destacar su temprana orfandad como determinante en su vocación artí

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  Mircea Cărtărescu

  Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest.
  
  Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
  
  Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enc

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  Camilo José Cela

  Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.
  
  In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.
  
  His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.
  
  See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_J...

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  Fernando de Rojas

  We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author.
  
  He wrote La Celestina , originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in 1499. People see this description of a tragic love affair as the beginning of literary Renaissance of Spain. The author published anonymously but revealed his name and famous birthplace in an acrostic code at the beginning of the second edition in the year 1500. None of his contemporaries mention him, and we know of no other work.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand...
  

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  José Donoso

  From Wikipedia: José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death.
  
  Donoso is the author of a number of short stories and novels, which contributed greatly to the Latin American literary boom. His best known works include the novels Coronación (Coronation), El lugar sin límites (Hell Has No Limits) and El obsc

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  Federico García Lorca

  Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.
  

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  Jorge Ibargüengoitia

  Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas (The Dead Girls), Dos Crimenes (Two Crimes), and Los Relámpagos de Agosto (The Lightning of August). His plays include Susana y los Jóvenes and Ante varias esfinges, both dating from the 1950s. In 1955, Ibarguengoitia received a Rockefeller grant to study in New York City; five years later he received the Mexico City literary award.

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  László Krasznahorkai

  László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025.
  
  He is probably best known through the oeuvre of the director Béla Tarr, who has collaborated with him on several movies.
  
  Apart from the Nobel Prize, Krasznahorkai has also been honored with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize, and the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for his English-translated oeuvre.
  

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  Roberto Bolaño

  For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector — working during the day and writing at night.
  
  He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "aband

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  Rosario Castellanos

  Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the Second World War, influenced by César Vallejo and others), she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today.
  
  Throughout her career, Castellanos wrote poetry, essays, one major play, and three novels: the semi-autobiographical Balún Canán and Oficio de tinieblas (trans

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  René Girard

  René Girard was a French-born American historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy.
  
  He was born in the southern French city of Avignon on Christmas day in 1923. Between 1943 and 1947, he studied in Paris at the École des Chartres, an institution for the training of archivists and historians, where he specialized in medieval history. In 1947 he went to Indiana University on a year’s fellowship and eventually made almost his entire career in the United States. He completed a PhD in history at Indiana University in 1950 but also began to teach literature, the field in which he would first make his reputation. He taught at Duke University and at Bryn Mawr before

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  Marcel Proust

  Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told mostly in a stream-of-consciousness style.
  
  Born in the first year of the Third Republic, the young Marcel, like his narrator, was a delicate child from a bourgeois family. He was active in Parisian high society during the 80s and 90s, welcomed in the most fashionable and exclusive salons of his day. However, his position there was also one of an outsider, due to his Jewishness and homosexuality. Towards the end of 1890s Proust began to withdraw more and more from society, and although he was never entirely reclusive, as is sometimes made out,

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  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (French: [nikɔla bwalo depʁeo]; often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic.
  
  Boileau did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, as Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.
  
  The surname "Despréaux" was derived from a small property at Crosne near Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. He was the fifteenth child of Gilles Boileau, a clerk in the parlement. Two of his brothers attained some distinction: Gilles Boileau, the author of a translation of Epictetus; and Jacques Boileau, who became a canon of the Sainte-Chapelle, and made valuable contributions to church history. His mother died when he was two years old; and Nicolas Boileau, who had a delicate constitution, s

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  Alfonso Reyes

  Poeta, ensayista, narrador, diplomático y pensador mexicano. Se le conoce también como «el regiomontano universal»

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  Frank Dikötter

  Frank Dikötter (Chinese: 馮客; pinyin: Féng Kè) is the Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Professor of the Modern History of China on leave from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
  
  Born in the Netherlands in 1961, he was educated in Switzerland and graduated from the University of Geneva with a Double Major in History and Russian. After two years in the People's Republic of China, he moved to London where he obtained his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1990. He stayed at SOAS as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and as Wellcome Research Fellow before being promoted to a personal chair as Professor of the Modern History of China in 2002. His r

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  Leila Guerriero

  Leila Guerriero is an Argentinian journalist. She began her career in 1991, as an editor with the magazine Página/30, part of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. Since then her texts have appeared in various publications across Latin America and Europe: La Nación and Rolling Stone, in Argentina; El País, Altaïr and Jot Down, in Spain; Piauí, in Brazil; Leopard, in Mexico; L’Internazionale, in Italy, among others. She is the author of many books, including Los suicidas del fin del mundo (Tusquets, 2004); Frutos extraños (2009, Aguilar, Alfaguara); Una historia sencilla (2013, Anagram); and La Otra Guerra (2021, Anagram). She has received the CEMEX + FNPI New Journalism Award, González-Ruano Prize, Blue Metropolis Grand Prix and Manuel Vázquez

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  José Emilio Pacheco

  José Emilio Pacheco Berny fue un poeta y ensayista mexicano nacido en Ciudad de México en 1939.
  
  Empezó a brillar desde muy joven en el panorama cultural mexicano, gracias a su dominio de las formas clásicas y modernas y al enfoque universal de su poesía.
  
  Además de poeta y prosista se ha consagrado también como eximio traductor, trabajando como director y editor de colecciones bibliográficas y diversas publicaciones y suplementos culturales. Ha sido docente universitario e investigador al servicio de entidades gubernamentales.
  
  Entre sus galardones se cuentan: Premio Nacional de Poesía, Premio Nacional de Periodismo Literario, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, Premio Magda Donato, Premio José Asunción Silva en 1996,el Premio Octavio Paz en el año 2003

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  Tor Ulven

  Tor Ulven (1953–1995) was a Norwegian poet. He is considered one of the major poets of the Norwegian post-war era, and he won several major literary prizes in Norwegian literature.
  
  His early works, consisting of traditional modernist verse poetry, were heavily influenced by André Breton and the surrealist movement. As the 1980s progressed he developed a more independent voice, both stylistically and thematically. The later part of his work consists mainly of prose. He committed suicide in 1995 in Oslo, the city where he was born.

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  Alberto Méndez

  Alberto Méndez (Madrid, 1941 — 2004), hijo del traductor José Méndez Herrera, fue un narrador español.
  Nació en Madrid, donde transcurrió su infancia. Estudió bachillerato en Roma y se licenció en Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Trabajó en grupos editoriales nacionales e internacionales. En 2002 quedó finalista en el Premio Internacional de cuentos Max Aub, con uno de los relatos de Los girasoles ciegos, su primer libro narrativo.
  Fue galardonado a título póstumo con el Premio Nacional de Narrativa (España) 2005 por Los girasoles ciegos, libro compuesto de cuatro relatos ambientados en la Guerra Civil Española. La obra obtuvo también los premios Setenil y de la Crítica. El último relato del libro -el que le da no

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  Nona Fernández

  Patricia Paola Fernández Silanes (Santiago, 1971), más conocida como Nona Fernández, es una actriz, escritora, guionista y feminista chilena.
  Hija única de madre soltera, Nona Fernández creció en un barrio de avenida Matta cercano al mercado persa Bíobío. Como actriz, fundó la compañía Merri Melodys, participó en montajes de muchas obras teatrales y ganó como mejor actriz un concurso del Centro Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura.
  Sus cuentos aparecieron primero en diversas antologías de concursos, y su primer libro de relatos salió a luz el año 2000: El cielo. Dos años más tarde publicó su premiada novela Mapocho.

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  Fernanda Melchor

  Nací en el puerto de Veracruz. Escribí el libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami y las novelas Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Páradais.
  
  I was born in Veracruz, Mexico. I wrote the non-fiction book Aquí no es Miami and the novels Falsa liebre, Temporada de huracanes y Paradais.

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  Ernesto Sabato

  Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) fue un destacado escritor, ensayista y físico argentino. Nacido en Rojas, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, estudió física en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y posteriormente trabajó en el laboratorio Curie de París, antes de en 1945 volcarse por completo en la literatura.
  
  Su vida estuvo marcada por una constante reflexión sobre la condición humana, el arte y los dilemas éticos del siglo XX. Durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina, presidió la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP), que produjo el emblemático informe Nunca Más.
  
  Entre sus obras más destacadas encontramos El túnel (1948), una novela psicológica que explora la alienación y la obsesión; Sobre héroes y tumbas(1961), c

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  Pedro J. Fernández

  Pedro J. Fernández es un autor mexicano apasionado por revivir el pasado con voz propia. Es el creador de novelas históricas que han marcado a miles de lectores, como Yo, Díaz, Soy Malintzin, Iturbide: El otro padre de la patria, Maximiliano: Memorias secretas del emperador mexicano, y Morir de pie, entre muchas otras. Su obra combina una profunda investigación con una narrativa íntima, literaria y provocadora.
  
  Con más de 185 mil ejemplares vendidos, ha logrado posicionar su nombre como una referencia en la novela histórica en México. También es autor de libros infantiles como Mexicanas que hicieron historia, galardonado con el Premio CANIEM al arte editorial, y ha sido invitado a ferias del libro en todo el país.
  
  Además de escritor, es somme

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  Tor Ulven

  Tor Ulven (1953–1995) was a Norwegian poet. He is considered one of the major poets of the Norwegian post-war era, and he won several major literary prizes in Norwegian literature.
  
  His early works, consisting of traditional modernist verse poetry, were heavily influenced by André Breton and the surrealist movement. As the 1980s progressed he developed a more independent voice, both stylistically and thematically. The later part of his work consists mainly of prose. He committed suicide in 1995 in Oslo, the city where he was born.

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  Fernando Iwasaki

  Fernando Iwasaki Cauti es un escritor, investigador, docente, filólogo e historiador peruano nacido en una familia de múltiples raíces (Perú, Japón, Ecuador e Italia). Actualmente reside en Sevilla, España.
  

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  Andrés Manuel López Obrador

  Político y politólogo mexicano, presidente nacional del partido político Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA), del que también es fundador y expresidente de su Consejo Nacional. Durante su carrera política, se ha desempeñado como presidente estatal del PRI en Tabasco, presidente nacional del PRD, Jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Federal y candidato a la Presidencia de México por la Coalición Por el Bien de Todos en las elecciones federales de México de 2006 y por la coalición Movimiento Progresista en las elecciones de 2012.

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  Mariano Azuela

  Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism.

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  Paco Ignacio Taibo II

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II, birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo, is a popular Mexican writer and novelist. He is the son of the late journalist Paco Ignacio Taibo I.

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  Alejandro Páez Varela

  Viene de una familia de periodistas chihuahuenses. Fue subdirector editorial de El Universal, y subdirector fundador de la revista Día Siete, que llevó a México cultura y periodismo durante once años. Fue editor en Reforma, El Economista y varios medios más. Actualmente es director de contenido del portal www.sinembargo.mx. Su novela Corazón de Kaláshnikov recibió las mejores críticas de sus contemporáneos. Es autor además de dos libros de relatos: No Incluye Baterías y Paracaídas que no Abre. Como periodista, coordinó el libro colectivo La Guerra por Juárez y ha participado como coautor en varios más: Los Amos de México, Los Suspirantes 2006, Los Intocables y Los Suspirantes 2011, con las biografías a Roberto Hernández, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas

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  Ramón López Velarde

  Ramón López Velarde was a Mexican poet. His work is generally considered to be postmodern, but is unique for its subject matter. He achieved great fame in his native land, to the point of being considered Mexico's national poet.

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  Élmer Mendoza

  Élmer Mendoza (*Culiacán, Sinaloa, México, en 1949) es un escritor mexicano. Además de dramaturgo es también autor de tres volúmenes de cuentos: Mucho qué reconocer (1978), Trancapalanca (1989), El amor es un perro sin dueño (1992); y de dos de crónicas sobre el narcotráfico, Cada respiro que tomas (1992) y Buenos muchachos (1995). Imparte en la actualidad cátedra en la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa y es un incesante promotor de la lectura e instituciones culturales.
  Afirma que: "Ha llegado un momento en el que la violencia no nos sorprende como antes".
  Desde su primera novela, Un asesino solitario (publicada en la colección Andanzas en 1999 y reimpresa en Fábula en 2001), Élmer Mendoza se había dado a conocer, a juicio de Federico Campbell

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  Verónica Murguía

  Verónica Murguía nació en México DF en 1960 y estudió Historia en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Vive y trabaja como escritora, traductora y periodista en el Distrito Federal. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
  
  Ha publicado una docena de libros para niños, tres novelas: Auliya, El fuego verde y Ladridos y conjuros (dos de las cuales han sido traducidas al alemán) y un libro de cuentos. Este libro, titulado El ángel de Nicolás, ha sido traducido al italiano.
  
  Desde 1999 escribe una columna quincenal para el suplemento cultural del periódico La Jornada.
  
  En 2013 se alzó con el Premio de Literatura Juvenil Gran Angular por su novela Loba, una historia innnovadora en el género fantástico en la que se recrea un mund

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