Federico Campbell

Who is Federico Campbell?

Federico Campbell is a writer from northern Mexico. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses. In 2000 he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995 he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship. He has translated Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia into Spanish.

Campbell is the son of Carmen Quiroz a teacher and Federico Campbell a telegraph operator, whose ancestors migrated to Mexico from Virginia in the 1830s. He has two sisters Sarina and Silvia Campbell Quiroz and only one son, Federico Campbell Peña who is also a writer and a journalist.