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Amparo Dávila is a Mexican novelist and short story writer. She was born on 28 February 1928 in Zacatecas, Mexico. She is best known for her surrealist and horror stories, which often feature themes of death, loneliness, and the supernatural. Dávila studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she earned a degree in philosophy and literature. She began writing in the 1950s, and her first collection of short stories, El árbol y la serpiente (The Tree and the Serpent), was published in 1957. She has since published several collections of short stories, including El huésped (The Guest, 1962), El libro de los ahorcados (The Book of the Hanged, 1965), and El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel, 1972). Dávila has won numerous awards for her work, including the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1962, the National Prize for Literature in 1975, and the Juan Rulfo Prize in 2018. She is currently 92 years old.

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Occupation novelist, poet, writer (horror, Macabre fiction)
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 28 February 1928
Birthday 28 February
Birthplace Zacatecas, Mexico
Date of death April 18, 2020
Died Place Zacatecas, Mexico
Nationality Mexico

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2020

Amparo Dávila's death was announced by the Secretary of Culture of Zacatecas on April 18, 2020. In 2018 she wrote:

1950

Dávila was born in Pinos, a town in Zacatecas, Mexico. She learned to love reading at an early age by spending time in her father's library. Her childhood was marked by fear, a theme that appeared in a number of her future works as an author. Her first published work was Salmos bajo la luna in 1950. This was followed by Meditaciones a la orilla del sueńo and Perfil de soledades. In 1954 she moved to Mexico City where she worked as Alfonso Reyes's secretary. In 1966 she was a part of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores (Mexican Writer's Center) where she received a grant to continue writing. In 2008, Davila was recognized by the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.

1928

Amparo Dávila (February 28, 1928 – April 18, 2020) was a Mexican writer best known for her short stories touching on the fantastic and the uncanny. She won the Xavier Villarrutia Award in 1977 for her short story collection, Árboles petrificados. In 2015 a literary prize in her honor was created in Mexico for the best story within the genre of "the fantastic": the Premio Bellas Artes del Cuento Fantástico Amparo Dávila.