Adela Fernández y Fernández

Adela Fernández y Fernández (6 December 1942 – 18 August 2013) was a Mexican folk writer and teacher of theater. Fernández left behind an important bibliography composed of 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short films of experimental cinema, and numerous plays. Gabriel García Márquez has described Fernández's literature as "extremely dark, very sad" and her work Aunt Enedina's Cage as being "among the ten Latin American stories that every person should read."

Biography Adela Fernández was born in Mexico City to the film maker Emilio Fernández and Cuban Gladys Fernández, whom he married in 1941, on 6 December 1942 and Adela would grow up in an atmosphere of cinematography.

She studied acting and dramaturgy at the Cinematographer Training Center of the Iberoamerican University of Mexico City.

On 24 October 2009, Fernández was present at the Andrés Henestrosa Library in Mexico City to give a lecture on the 1946 film Enamorada.

Selected works

Híbrido and El Perro

Fernández, Adela. La Jaula de Tía Enedina [Aunt Enedina's Cage] (in Spanish) Surrealist writings: La Trivia El Cadáver Exquisito Escritura Automática Short stories: Claroscuro Cotidiano Surrealismo Monologues: El Sepulturero Sin Sol... ¿Hacia dónde Mirarán los Girasoles? Plays: La Tercera Soledad La Prodigiosa