This was followed by Meditaciones a la orilla del sueńo and Perfil de soledades. Her first published work was Salmos bajo la luna in 1950. Her childhood was marked by fear, a theme that appeared in a number of her future works as an author. She learned to love reading at an early age by spending time in her father's library. In 2015 a literary prize in her honor was created in Mexico for the best story within the genre of "the fantastic": the Premio Bellas Artes del Cuento Fantástico Amparo Dávila.ĭávila was born in Pinos, a town in Zacatecas, Mexico. She won the Xavier Villarrutia Award in 1977 for her short story collection, Árboles petrificados. Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (1977), Medalla Bellas Artes (2015)Īmparo Dávila (Febru– April 18, 2020) was a Mexican writer best known for her short stories touching on the fantastic and the uncanny. Árboles petrificados (Petrified Trees) (1977), Tiempo destrozado (Broken Time) (1959) Novelist, poet, writer (horror, Macabre fiction)
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