Federico Campbell

Federico Campbell Quiroz (July 1, 1941 – February 15, 2014) was a Mexican writer.

[2] Campbell translated works by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia, among others, into Spanish.

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Campbell was the son of Carmen Quiroz, a teacher, and Federico Campbell, a telegraph operator whose ancestors migrated to Mexico from Virginia in the 1830s.

[1] He had two sisters, Sarina and Silvia Campbell Quiroz, and with Margarita Peña Muñoz, a Mexican translator and researcher interested in Novohispanic literature, had one son, Federico Campbell Peña, who is a journalist.

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