María Enriqueta Camarillo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican poet
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Place of Birth: Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico
About María Enriqueta Camarillo
- María Enriqueta Camarillo (also known as María Enriqueta Camarillo y Roa de Pereyra) (1872–1968) was a Mexican poet novelist, short story writer and translator.
- She was highly decorated for her works having schools and libraries named after her, as well as a bust by Spanish sculptor Mariano Benlliure erected in Hidalgo Park in Mexico City in her honor.
- She received the 1923 literary prize from Académie française for her novel El Secreto.
- She was awarded a collaborative partnership in 1927 with the Real Academia Hispano-Americana de Ciencias y Artes of Cádiz for her textbook Rosas de la Infancia and for the same work a prize as best children's literature at the Literary Salon of the Universal Exposition in Seville, Spain.
- Camarillo was granted the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 1947 and in 1948 received the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise.
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