Ángeles Mastretta

Ángeles Mastretta was born in Puebla on 9 October 1949 and moved to Mexico City at seventeen, after her father's death. She studied journalism at the national university, wrote for the magazine Siete and the daily Ovaciones, then in 1974 received a fellowship from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, where she met Rulfo and Elizondo, and published a collection of poems. She directed cultural outreach at a university campus and the Museo del Chopo. Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1997, the first woman to receive it.

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• NovelTear This Heart OutArráncame la vidaÁngeles Mastretta · 1985Literature