Campbell, Federico (1941–)

Born in Tijuana on July 1, 1941, Federico Campbell is considered one of the founding writers of border literature from northern Mexico. He became known as a journalist in 1972 with Infame turba (Infamous Mob). He is the author of "La hora del lobo" (The Hour of the Wolf), a weekly column in the news weekly Milenio. In 2000 he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. He has also published 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), La clave Morse (2001; The Morse Code), and El imperio del adiós (2002; The Empire of Farewell). Other works include Conversaciones con escritores (1972; Conversations with Writers) and an anthology of critical essays on Juan Rulfo, La ficción de la memoria (2003; The Fiction of Memory). He has translated Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia into Spanish. In 1995 he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship.

See alsoJournalism; Journalism in Mexico; Literature: Spanish America.

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Additional Bibliography

Campbell, Federico. Conversaciones con escritores. México: Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1972.

Pino, Hernán Becerra, Javier Aranda Luna, et al., eds. La máquina de escribir: Entrevistas con Federico Campbell. Tijuana, D.F.: Centro Cultural Tijuana; Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1997.

                                            Rosina Conde