Federico Campbell

Federico Campbell Quiroz (July 1, 1941 – February 15, 2014), known as Federico Campbell, was a writer from northern Mexico. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses (Tijuana: Stories on the Border).[1] In 2000, he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995, he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship.[2] Campbell translated works by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, and Leonardo Sciascia, among others, into Spanish.

Federico Campbell
Born	Federico Campbell Quiroz (1941-07-01)1 July 1941 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Died	15 February 2014(2014-02-15) (aged 72) Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Journalist, writer, essayist, translator, narrator
Years active	1971–2014
Children	1

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.