Julieta Campos

Julieta Campos de la Torre (Havana, May 8, 1932 – Mexico City, September 5, 2007) was a Cuban-Mexican writer, translator, and essayist. She studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Havana and Contemporary French Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. She moved to Mexico in 1955, where she married diplomat Enrique González Pedrero and adopted Mexican nationality. Her work spans novels, essays, theater, and chronicles, with notable titles such as Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina (1974), which earned her the Xavier Villaurrutia Award, and La forza del destino (2004), a historical novel about Cuba that she wrote over 23 years.

In addition to her literary work, Campos was a translator for publishers like Fondo de Cultura Económica and Siglo XXI Editores, and collaborated with magazines such as Vuelta, Universidad de México, and Revista Mexicana de Literatura. Between 1982 and 1988, she promoted the Laboratorio de Teatro Campesino e Indígena in Tabasco, and served as the Secretary of Tourism in the government of the Federal District during the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. She passed away in 2007 at the age of 75, leaving behind a significant literary and cultural legacy.

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