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Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora (born 1943, Mexico city) 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 (University of Miami 1987), and the National Award of Theatre by the Mexican government (INBA 1980). 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:
Family
Guillermo Schmidhuber is the son of Guillermo Schmidhuber y Martínez (1913–1945) and Josefina de la Mora y Peña (1913–1990). He lives in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he continues writing plays and articles in the company of his wife and three children.
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Website of Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora Archived 2017-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
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