María Luisa Puga

Ana Cruz García (Cork Institute of Technology)

Ed. by Nuala Finnegan, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.3: Hispanic Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 1944
Died 2004
Activity 1980-2004

Places

Born in Mexico
Active in Mexico

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

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María Luisa Puga was born in Mexico City in 1944. From a very early age she knew that she wanted to be a writer and an early encounter with the

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prompted her to keep a personal diary. In those days it functioned as a replacement for the mother figure that she had tragically lost at the age of nine: “es como si ese diario fuera mi mamá, a la que recurro para acusar al mundo de todas las cosas que me hacen” [it is as though that diary was my mother to whom I resort to blame the world for all the things it does to me] (my own translation) (Urrutia, 2008: 66).

However, in Mexico she did not seem to find the space and language to be the writer she wanted to be and she left her native country to spend ten years travelling in Europe and Africa. With her diplomat

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Citation: Cruz García, Ana. "María Luisa Puga". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 July 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13907, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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