Dolores Castro
Born(1923-04-12)12 April 1923
Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Died30 March 2022(2022-03-30) (aged 98)
Occupation
  • Poet
  • narrator
  • essayist
  • literary critic
NationalityMexican
Alma mater

Dolores Castro Varela (12 April 1923 – 30 March 2022)[1] was a Mexican poet, narrator, essayist and literary critic.

Biography

Castro was a professor of literature at institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana and Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septién García. She was the founder of Radio UNAM and producer of radio programs. She also hosted the program Poetas de México on Canal 11 with Alejandro Avilés. She collaborated in the direction of Cultural Diffusion of the University. She served as editor-in-chief and contributor to Barcos de Papel. She was a member of the editorial board of Summa Bibliographical. Fuensanta, The Word and The Man, Level, Poetry of America, Bibliographic Sum, and Magazine of the UIA. HIS poems of hers What is lived? She won the National Prize for Poetry of Mazatlan in 1980. She won the National Prize for Sciences and Arts in Literature and Linguistics in 2014. In 2008, the INBA paid her a tribute for her 85 years of life. In 2014, the INBA paid tribute to her with the editorial presentation Dolores Castro, 90 years old: word and time.[2][3]

Castro has been for decades the teacher of many generations of poets. She was also part of the group Eight Mexican Poets,[4] made up of Alejandro Avilés,[5] Roberto Cabral del Hoyo, Javier Peñalosa,[6] Honorato Magaloni Duarte, Efrén Hernández, Octavio Novaro and Rosario Castellanos.

Bibliography

Poems
  • El corazón transfigurado, 1949
  • Dos nocturnos, 1952
  • Siete poemas, 1952
  • La tierra está sonando, 1959
  • Cantares de vela, 1960
  • Soles, 1977
  • Qué es lo vivido, 1980
  • Las palabras, 1990
  • Poemas inéditos, 1990
  • No es el amor el vuelo, 1992
  • Tornasol, 1997
  • Sonar en el silencio, 2000
  • Oleajes, 2003
  • Íntimos huéspedes, 2004
  • Algo le duele al aire, 2011
  • Viento quebrado, poesía reunida, 2011
  • El corazón transfigurado/The Transfigured Heart, 2013
  • Sombra domesticada, 2013
  • Pozo de Luz, Poetazos, 2013
  • Algo le duele al aire/ Something Pains the Wind, 2015
Novel
  • La ciudad y el viento, 1962
Essay
  • Dimensión de la lengua en su función creativa, emotiva y esencial, 1989
Anthologies
  • Obras completas, 1991
  • Antología poética en francés, 2003
  • A mitad de un suspiro, 2008
  • La vida perdurable, antología poética

References

  1. ↑ "Muere la poeta mexicana Dolores Castro Varela". Mexico: Informador.mx. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  2. ↑ ""Viento quebrado, poesía reunida",la nueva publicación de Dolores Castro". Informador. 26 February 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dolores Castro 90 años. Palabra y tiempo / Palacio de Bellas Artes - Sala Manuel M. Ponce". 6 April 2017. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  4. ↑ "Castro, Dolores [Semblanza] - Ocho poetas". 14 February 2015. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Avilés, Alejandro". 14 February 2015. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  6. ↑ "Paso de la memoria, reunión de la poesía de Javier Peñalosa Calderón". 14 February 2015. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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