Federico Campbell

Federico Campbell (Tijuana, Mexico July 1, 1941–) is a writer from northern Mexico. 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] He has translated Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia into Spanish.

Campbell is 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 has two sisters Sarina and Silvia Campbell Quiroz and only one son, Federico Campbell Peña who is also a writer and a journalist.

Works

Pretexta (1979)
Todo lo de las focas (1982; All about Seals)
Tijuanenses (1989; Tijuana: Stories on the Border, 1995)
La memoria de Sciascia (1989; Sciascia's Memory)
La invención del poder (1994; The Invention of Power)
Post scriptum triste (1994)
Máscara negra (1995; Black Mask)
Transpeninsular (2000)
La clave Morse (2001; The Morse Code)
El imperio del adiós (2002; The Empire of Farewell).

References

^ ^a ^b LA Times, November 01, 2004, "His treasured Tijuana" by Reed Johnson
^ Guggenheim Fellowship

External links

Campbell's blog

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