In 2018 the award Premio Nacional de Narrativa Elisa Mújica was created in order to recognize the work of unpublished female authors and to honor her 100th birth anniversary.
Later, between 1936 and 1943, she worked as the personal secretary of future President of Colombia Carlos Lleras Restrepo.
[2] During these days, she was close to the Grupo Bachué, one of the most important artistic avant-garde movements in Colombia.
She lived in Spain in the 1950s and was an influence to her niece, the poet and journalist María Mercedes Carranza.
[3] In Ecuador she had met members from El grupo de Guayaquil and become a supporter of marxism and communism.