Rosario Castellanos

Rosario Castellanos was born in Mexico City on 25 May 1925 and grew up in Comitán, near the family estate, in Chiapas; her little brother died when she was seven. After the agrarian reform, the family, having lost its lands, settled in Mexico City. A master of philosophy of the national university, she studied aesthetics in Madrid, worked for the National Indigenist Institute, taught in Mexico and the United States, and wrote in Excélsior. Ambassador to Israel in 1971, she died by electrocution in Tel Aviv on 7 August 1974.

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• NovelThe Nine GuardiansBalún CanánRosario Castellanos · 1957Literature