Elena Garro

Elena Garro was born in Puebla on 11 December 1916 and spent her childhood in Iguala, in Guerrero. She studied literature in Mexico City, worked in theatre and choreography, then married Octavio Paz in 1937 and followed him to Spain during the civil war, then to the United States and France. A journalist, she published her first plays in 1957. Implicated after the events of 1968, she went into exile for many years, partly in Spain, and died in Cuernavaca on 22 August 1998.

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• NovelRecollections of Things to ComeLos recuerdos del porvenirElena Garro · 1963Literature