Margarita López Portillo
| Margarita López Portillo y Pacheco | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1914 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Died | 2006 (aged 92) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation | Writer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1965-1985 |
Margarita López Portillo y Pacheco (1914–2006) was a Mexican novelist who earned several awards for her novels and also had three of them adapted for film. She was a public servant, serving under three presidents in various capacities of regulating media. During her brother José López Portillo's (1976-1982) presidency, she received sharp criticism for his nepotism and failure to act on warnings of potential fire at the National Cinema Library. She studied the works of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz and led an effort to restore the convent where the Sister had lived. In 1980, she was granted the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Margarita López Portillo y Pacheco was born in 1914 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Her family was one of intellectuals and military officers, as her grandfather José López Portillo y Rojas had been a writer, was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language and one-time governor of the state of Jalisco. Her father, José López Portillo y Weber served as a cadet during the Ten Tragic Days in the service of President Francisco I. Madero. She graduated with a degree in letters from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and published her first book Los laureles in 1952. El Universal Gráfico awarded her the “Lanz Duret” Prize for her debut novel. In 1954, she was awarded the “Lanz Duret” Prize for her novel "Toña Machetes" and earned the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize in 1956 for her third novel, Tierra bronca.
In 1958, she joined a group of writers who worked under the direction of Fausto Vega and later under Agustín Yáñez. Members of the workshop included Guadalupe Amor, Carmen Andrade, Beatriz Castillo Ledón, Amparo Dávila, Guadalupe Dueñas, Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón, Mercedes Manero de Gertz, Ángeles Mendieta Alatorre, Esther Ortuño de Aguiñaga, Cordelia Urueta and Margarita Urueta. She published pieces in numerous magazines, including Ábside, Mujeres and El Rehilete. In 1964, she began working under the Ministry of the Interior for the Gustavo Díaz Ordaz regime as the supervisor of television productions and the Directorate General of Cinematography. In 1974, President Luis Echeverría appointed her as Director of the Museo Tecnológico de la CFE (Museum of Technology of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE)) and Cultural Dissemination Advisor for Workers In 1975, she was made the Divisional Manager of the Federal Electricity Commission for Guadalajara and Jalisco.
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