Born: 7 March 1920, Mexico
Died: 3 March 2011
Country most active: Mexico
Also known as: Teresa Aveleyra Arroyo de Anda
The following is republished with kind permission from the Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México.
Nació en la Ciudad de México, el 7 de marzo de 1920; muere en la misma ciudad, el 3 de marzo de 2011. Ensayista, narradora y poeta. Estudió Letras modernas en la unam y Literatura en La Sorbona y en la Universidad de Perusa. Profesora de Literatura española en la Universidad de Varsovia, Polonia; profesora e investigadora de El Colegio de México. Premio del II Concurso Literario Cervantes 1962 por El humorismo de Cervantes en sus obras menores, otorgado por el itesm.
She was born in Mexico City on March 7, 1920, and died there on March 3, 2011. An essayist, fiction writer, and poet, she studied Modern Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Literature at the Sorbonne and the University of Perugia. She was a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a professor and researcher at El Colegio de México. She received the 1962 Cervantes Literary Prize for her work, ” Cervantes’ Humor in her Minor Works,” awarded by the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM).