Margarita Peña
Margarita Peña ( Concepción Margarita Peña Muñoz; August 21, 1937October 7, 2018) was a Mexican writer, translator and researcher, doctor of letters, teacher and emeritus professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work focused on Mexican literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Her awards include: Premio Universidad Nacional, Premio de la Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial, Premio Huehuetlatolli, Premio de Crítica Literaria, and Premio ComuArte. Early life and education. Concepción Margarita Peña Muñoz was born in Mexico City, August 21, 1937. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Hispanic literature at  the National Autonomous University of Mexico; and her doctorate from El Colegio de México. Career. She was a professor of New Spanish literature, as well as of Golden Age literature. She served as a teacher at the undergraduate level for more than thirty years at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She belonged to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) (level III) since 2003 and was Coordinator of the Extraordinary Chair "Juan Ruiz de Alarcón". She taught in various universities in Mexico and abroad. She was widely activity in the world of letters , her work extending to the creation of articles, essays, critical editions, compilations and anthologies, short stories, essays, and newspaper articles, among others. Her constant work in the Archivo General de la Nación gave her access to letters, sonnets, romances, declarations of prisoners, spells, and even a fragment of a treatise on palmistry. The work that brings together a wide variety of these writings is called "La palabra amordazada", and presents literature censored by the Mexican Inquisition during the colonial period. She wrote more than thirty essays. Her impressive work in document rescue makes her an important Mexican writer and literary  figure. The critical edition of the New Spanish songbook of the 16th century, "Flores de baria poesía", is part of her work, as is the novel, "El amarre". Personal life. Pena's husband was Federico Campbell. They had one son, the journalist, Federico Campbell Peña. She died of heart problems in Mexico City, October 7, 2018. Awards and honours. Her awards and honours include: Selected works. The titles of her other works are: