Amparo Dávila

Amparo Dávila was born in Mexico in 1928. She has published several collections of short stories and for a time worked as Alfonso Reyes’s secretary. In recent years a massive resurgence of interest has acknowledged her as one of Mexico’s finest masters of the short story. She was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1977, and honored with the Medalla Bellas Artes in 2015.

Of Love, Madness, and Death: Notes Toward a Literary Autobiography

Amparo Davila, at 90, Begins to Consider the Life That Was

March 4, 2019 By Amparo Dávila

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Amparo Dávila

Of Love, Madness, and Death: Notes Toward a Literary Autobiography

Amparo Davila, at 90, Begins to Consider the Life That Was

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