Guadalupe Dueñas (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 19 October 1910 – México, DF, 13 January 2002) was a 20th-century Mexican short story writer and essayist.

Dueñas was the first-born daughter from the marriage between Miguel Dueñas Padilla (Spanish descent) and Guadalupe de la Madrid García,[1] first cousin to former president of Mexico Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and Enrique O.

On a trip to Colima, he met the fourteen-year-old teenager of Lebanese origin, Guadalupe de la Madrid, and left the seminary.

[1] Apart from these small family signs, little is known about the first years of Dueñas' life except for the information repeated by different sources: she completed her primary education at the Teresian Schools in Mexico City and Morelia; she took private literature classes with Emma Godoy and studied Hispanic Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Leonardo Martínez Carrizales, the interview's author, had had the goal of obtaining enough material to elaborate a biography similar to the manner in which Víctor Díaz Arciniega written on Alejandro Gómez Arias, the director of the strike for university autonomy.

Carrizales' wishes were frustrated: after Easter, Dueñas did not see him again because she had to prepare, she said, silently for her death.However, before the silence, the words collected in that interview managed to give an intimate profile of the writer.

"[4]From one confinement to the next, between identities with which she did not feel identified ("neither on one side nor the other"), is where Guadalupe Dueñas began to write: "I kept a diary that all the girls at school kept: it was no accident.

"The first person who read this notebook, and the poems it contained, was her uncle, the priest and humanist Alfonso Méndez Plancarte, her father's cousin on the maternal line of the surname Padilla.

At a book fair, the manager of the Fondo de Cultura Económica's shelf allowed her to put her self-published work on sale, that is, a few "little stories" lined "with very beautiful paintings, all crooked, the cows standing in line, a success—not what she wrote, but what she painted, was the funniest thing."

"[4]Carballo was the first to print Dueñas' work, followed by Alfonso and Gabriel Méndez Plancarte brothers in their magazine, Ábside, revista de cultura mexicana.

[6] Janua The stories "Las ratas", "El Correo", "Los lojos" and "Mi chimpancé" were included in the July–September 1954 issue and later distributed as a separate plaquette.

Dueñas was a regular contributor after these first published texts, including "El moribundo", "Digo yo como vaca" and "Diplodocus Sapiens" in 1955, "La hora desteñida" in 1956, "Autopresentación" in 1966 and "Carta a un aprendiz de cuentos" in 1960.