Josefina Niggli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josefina Niggli

Anglo-American playwright and novelist

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1910

Place of Birth: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1983

Profession: writer, poet, novelist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Josefina Niggli (1910–1983; birth name was Josephine) was a Mexican-born Anglo-American playwright and novelist.
Writing about Mexican-American issues in the middle years of the century, before the rise of the Chicano movement, she was the first and, for a time, the only Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes; her egalitarian views of gender, race and ethnicity were progressive for their time and helped lay the groundwork for such later Chicana feminists as Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros.
Niggli is now recognized as "a literary voice from the middle ground between Mexican and Anglo heritage." Critic Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez has written that Niggli should be considered on a par with such widely praised Spanish-language contemporaries as Mariano Azuela, Martín Luis Guzmán and Nellie Campobello.
She is thought to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her.