Guillermo Schmidhuber


Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora is a Mexican author, playwright, and critic.

Career

Among his most notable works are: Obituary, The Useless Heroes, The Heirs of Segismund, The Secret Friendship of Juana and Dorothy, and Never Say Adiós to Columbus. His novel Women of the Tequila Volcano was published simultaneously in Argentina and Mexico. He has published several books on Mexican theatre, especially on the works of Rodolfo Usigli and Elena Garro. As a playwright he has won several prizes, including the Letras de Oro for best work in Spanish written in the United States, and the National Award of Theatre by the Mexican government. His plays have been translated into German, French and English.
He was professor at the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky from 1986 to 1993. He is currently a professor at the University of Guadalajara, the second largest university in Mexico. He helped discover two previously lost texts of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; one of them, The Second Celestina, was published with a prologue by Octavio Paz.
From 1995 to 2001 he served as the Cultural Attaché for the Mexican state of Jalisco

Selected work

Schmidhuber´s bibliography covers 120 books or chapters. Some of his writings are:
Guillermo Schmidhuber is the son of Guillermo Schmidhuber y Martínez and Josefina de la Mora y Peña. He lives in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he continues writing plays and articles in the company of his wife and three children.

General citations


  1. Dictionary of Mexican Literature, Eladio Cortés, Greenwood Press ;
  2. Sueños: Aproximaciones a la Dramaturgia de Guillermo Schmidhuber, by Lourdes Betanzos, Ediciones Universal ;
  3. "El armario de las abuelas de Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora: Articulación de la imagen femenina en una genealogía de mujeres", by Magda Castellvi de Moor, Antología Crítica del Teatro Breve Hispanoamericano, Medellín, Colombia: University of Antioquia, 1997, pps. 321–327;
  4. "Burdensome Heritages in Los Herederos de Segimuno," by Denise M. DiPuccio, Revista de Literatura Latinoamerciana, Vol. 19, No 2 : 43-50;
  5. "El Valor de la Libertad en el Teatro de Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora," by Christine D. Martines, Latin American Theater Review, Vol 24, No. 1 : 29-39;

  7. "Hablar del Teatro: Repeticióon y Espejismo," by Bonnie Hildebrand Reynolds, Revista del Ateneo Puertorriqueño, Vol 3, No. 9 : 169–177;
  8. by Lady Rojas-Tempe, Latin American Theatre Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 : pps. 115–122;

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