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Dolores Castro

ドロレス・カストロ

Dolores Castro

Aliases: Dolores Castro Varela

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1923-04-12 (Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico)
Died
2022-03-30 (Mexico) age 98
Nationality
Mexico
Languages
Spanish
Religion
Unknown

Career

Occupations
Poet, Narrator, Essayist, Literary critic, Literature professor
Active Years
1949-2022
Affiliations
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana, Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septién García
Memberships
Eight Mexican Poets
Influenced
Alejandro Avilés, Roberto Cabral del Hoyo, Rosario Castellanos

Education

Complutense University of Madrid
Literature
Country: Spain
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Literature
Country: Mexico

Awards

National Prize for Poetry of Mazatlan
1980
Work: Qué es lo vivido
Organization: Mazatlan Literature Prize Committee
Result: 受賞
National Prize for Sciences and Arts in Literature and Linguistics
2014
Category: 文学・言語学
Organization: Government of Mexico
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

El corazón transfigurado

1949 Poetry

Poetry collection on the transfigured heart

LoveTransfiguration

Qué es lo vivido

1980 Poetry

Poetry exploring what is lived

LifeExperience

La ciudad y el viento

1962 Novel

Novel set in the city and the wind

CityWind

Bibliography

  • El corazón transfigurado, 1949
  • Dos nocturnos, 1952
  • Siete poemas, 1952
  • La tierra está sonando, 1959
  • Cantares de vela, 1960
  • La ciudad y el viento, 1962
  • 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
  • Obras completas, 1991
  • Antología poética en francés, 2003
  • A mitad de un suspiro, 2008
  • La vida perdurable, antología poética
  • Dimensión de la lengua en su función creativa, emotiva y esencial, 1989

Style & Themes

Literary Style
LyricalIntrospective
Recurring Motifs
HeartWindSilence

Legacy

Renowned Mexican poet and educator who taught generations of poets. Member of Eight Mexican Poets.