Altaír Tejeda de Tamez is a Mexican

Mexico

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 short story writer, poet, playwright and journalist.

Biography

Altaír Tejeda Treviño was born on October 23, 1922 in Ciudad Victoria

Ciudad Victoria

Ciudad Victoria , is the capital city of the Mexican state ofTamaulipas. It is located in the western-central region of the state. Ciudad Victoria is also the municipal seat of the surrounding Victoria Municipality, which covers an area of 1,638 km²...

, Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas

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, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, to Rafael Tejeda Puente and Elvira Treviño, both of them professors. She studied at the Leona Vicario elementary school, and made her secondary studies at the Normal and Preparatory School of Tamaulipas, finishing her studies at the Teacher's National School in Mexico City

Mexico City

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 as Elementary School Professor. She went on to study a master's degree in Spanish Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...

. She got married to Santiago Tamez Anguiano with whom she had two children: Antonio and Jorge. She has been working in the education field as an elementary school teacher, and as Advanced Spanish, Literature and Literary and Composition Theory professor. As a columnist she writes chronicles for the El Diario de Ciudad Victoria newspaper; some of them have been compiled in a book titled Buenos días, Victoria.

Short story

• El perro acomplejado (1958)
• El cementerio de las palabras (1980)
• Ochenta ventanas para asomarse al mundo (1983)
• Crónicas y cuentos (1985)
• Buenos días, Victoria (1987)
• Estrategia (1989)
• Variaciones para un tema de rosa (1993)
• Los signos secretos (1997)
• Antología de cuentos (2001)

Drama

• Otoño muere en primavera (1959)
• Yerbabuena y otras piezas (1983), comprising the following stories: Canasta, Buenos noches, soledad, Los fantasmas del espejo roto and Yerbabuena.
• Los mutantes y otras piezas (1985)

Poetry

• XXX Minutos, ensayo de poesía (1952)
• Acroama (1961)
• Fuensanta (1966)
• Homenaje a "Saltillo 400" (1977)
• Azares de amor y muerte (1979)
• Palabras sencillas: antología poética (1980)

Essay

• El péndulo: el mundo interior de Ramón López Velarde a través de su poesía y otros ensayos (1980)