Federico Campbell

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.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Campbell and the second or maternal family name is Quiroz.
Federico Campbell
Born
Federico Campbell Quiroz

(1941-07-01)1 July 1941
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Died15 February 2014(2014-02-15) (aged 72)
Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer, essayist, translator, narrator
Years active1971–2014
Children1

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.

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
  1. LA Times, November 01, 2004, "His treasured Tijuana" by Reed Johnson
  2. Guggenheim Fellowship Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine


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