Years active 1971–2014 Children 1 | Name Federico Campbell Role Writer | |
Full Name Federico Campbell Quiroz Born 1 July 1941 ( 1941-07-01 ) Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico Occupation Journalist, writer, essayist, translator, narrator Died February 15, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico Education National Autonomous University of Mexico Books Post scriptum triste, Tijuana, Los brothers Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, Latin America & Caribbean |
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Federico Campbell (July 1, 1941 – February 15, 2014) was a writer from northern Mexico. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses (Tijuana: Stories on the Border). In 2000 he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995 he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship. Campbell translated works by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia, among others, into Spanish.
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Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Campbell was the son of Carmen Quiroz, a teacher, and Federico Campbell, a telegraph operator whose ancestors migrated to Mexico from Virginia in the 1830s. He has two sisters, Sarina and Silvia Campbell Quiroz, and one son, Federico Campbell Peña, who is also a writer and a journalist.
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