Federico Campbell
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Federico Campbell is a writer from northern Mexico. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses (Tijuana: Stories on the Border). In 2000 he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995 he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship
. He has translated Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia into Spanish.
Campbell is the son of Carmen Quiroz a teacher and Federico Campbell a telegraph operator, whose ancestors migrated to Mexico from Virginia in the 1830s.He has two sisters Sarina and Silvia Campbell Quiroz and only one son, Federico Campbell Peña who is also a writer and a journalist.
Guggenheim Fellowship
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. He has translated Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia into Spanish.
Campbell is the son of Carmen Quiroz a teacher and Federico Campbell a telegraph operator, whose ancestors migrated to Mexico from Virginia in the 1830s.He has two sisters Sarina and Silvia Campbell Quiroz and only one son, Federico Campbell Peña who is also a writer and a journalist.
Works
He has 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)
- Transpeninsular (2000)
- La clave Morse (2001; The Morse Code)
- El imperio del adiós (2002; The Empire of Farewell).