Federico Campbell Explained

Federico Campbell
Birth Name:Federico Campbell Quiroz
Birth Date:1 July 1941
Birth Place:Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Death Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation:Journalist, writer, essayist, translator, narrator
Children:1
Years Active:1971 - 2014

Federico Campbell Quiroz (July 1, 1941 – February 15, 2014) was a Mexican writer. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses (Tijuana: Stories on the Border).[1] In 2000, he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995, he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship.[2] Campbell translated works by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia, among others, into Spanish.

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 had two sisters, Sarina and Silvia Campbell Quiroz, and with Margarita Peña Muñoz, a Mexican translator and researcher interested in Novohispanic literature, had one son, Federico Campbell Peña, who is a journalist.

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  1. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-nov-01-et-campbell1-story.html LA Times, November 01, 2004
  2. http://www.gf.org/fellows/2205-federico-campbell Guggenheim Fellowship