Rosa Beltrán


Rosa Beltrán is a Mexican writer, lecturer and academic.
On 12 June 12, 2014, she was chosen by the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua to occupy seat 306 in its membership.

Life

Beltrán was born in Mexico City in 1960.
She received a degree in Hispanic literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a doctorate in comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several novels. In 1994, she received an award from the American Association of University Women for her essays on writers of the 20th century. Her work has been translated into English, Italian, French, German, Dutch and Slovenian, and her stories have appeared in anthologies published in Spain, Italy, Holland, Canada, USA and Mexico.
Beltrán has taught at UCLA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ramon Llull University, University of Colorado, and currently teaches in the graduate program in comparative literature at UNAM. She was deputy director of La Jornada Semanal and is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. She serves as UNAM's Director of Literature, Coordination of Cultural Diffusion, and has worked for Milenio's cultural supplement, Laberinto.

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