Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (December 29, 1936–) is a Mexican writer and poet.

She was born in Hyères

Hyères

Hyères , Provençal Occitan: Ieras in classical norm or Iero in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France....

, France

France

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 to parents who had fled the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

. She converted to Judaism

Judaism

Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

 after discovering her Sephardic ancestry. After briefly living in Cuba

Cuba

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, in 1942 the Muñiz family moved to Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. Angelina studied at City University of New York and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Ph.D. in Literature. She is a Professor of comparative literature at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Angelina won the 1985
Xavier Villaurrutia Award

Xavier Villaurrutia Award

The Xavier Villaurrutia Award is a prestigious literary prize given in Mexico, to a Latin American writer published in Mexico. Founded in 1955, it was named in memory of Xavier Villaurrutia....

 for her short story Huerto Cerrado, Huerto Sellado. In 1993, she won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize

The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize] is a prize awarded to women writers in Spanish. It is organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The prize is worth 100,000 pesos...

 for Dulcinea Encantada.

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