Dolores Castro Varela (12 April 1923 – 30 March 2022) was a Mexican poet, narrator, essayist and literary critic.
Career Castro was a professor of literature at institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) and Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septién García. She was a founder of the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán at UNAM.
She was a founder of Radio UNAM and producer of radio shows. She also hosted the program Poetas de México on Canal 11 with Alejandro Avilés, and collaborated in the direction of Cultural Diffusion of the university.
She served as editor-in-chief and contributor to Barcos de Papel and Poesía de América magazines. She was a member of the editorial board of Summa Bibliographical, Fuensanta, The Word and The Man, Level, Poetry of America, Bibliographic Sum, and the literary magazine of the UIA.
Awards and honors She won the National Prize for Poetry of Mazatlan in 1980. In 2014 she won the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the Literature and Linguistics category. In 2008, the INBA paid her a tribute for her 85 years of life, and in 2014, the INBA paid tribute to her with the editorial presentation Dolores Castro, 90 years old: word and time.
Castro was part of the group Eight Mexican Poets, which also included Alejandro Avilés, Roberto Cabral del Hoyo, Javier Peñalosa, Honorato Magaloni Duarte, Efrén Hernández, Octavio Novaro and Rosario Castellanos.
Published works 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
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