Federico Campbell
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1 July 1941
Federico Campbell | |
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| Born | Federico Campbell Quiroz 1 July 1941 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| Died | 15 February 2014 (aged 72) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer, essayist, translator, narrator |
| Years active | 1971–2014 |
| Children | 1 |
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.[1] 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.
