Rosamaría Roffiel

Rosamaría Roffiel (born August 30, 1945) is a Mexican poet, novelist, journalist, and editor. Her first literary work, Amora, is considered the first lesbian-feminist novel published in Mexico. She is also the author of poetry collections that refer to lesbian love, such as Corramos libres ahora (1986).

Biography Rosamaría Roffiel was born in Veracruz on August 30, 1945. She moved to Mexico City at age 20.

Self-taught in journalism, she began her professional career at the newspaper Excélsior, In 1979, after the victory of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, she left Mexico to coordinate the Sandinista publication El Trabajador for three years. In 1980 she returned to Mexico, and in 1982 she began to contribute to fem., the first feminist magazine in Latin America. . Other investigative journalist is Lizbeth Hernández who covers social and human-right issues.

In 1986 she left journalism to work as a production coordinator on foreign films. In September 1989 she published Amora, a literary work which has been recognized as Mexico's first lesbian-feminist novel. In an interview, Roffiel recalled that she had begun writing it in 1982.

Amora Narrated in first person, Amora is set in Mexico City, and tells, in a simple way, the difficulties women experience in an environment that is heavy with machismo. It is a story based on the experiences of the author, with some fictitious elements, which highlight the relationships among a group of women living under one roof, describes how sexuality is discovered through coexistence, and how the women must act under a patriarchal system that oppresses them. The style and influence of Roffiel's work have been compared to that of Guadalupe Loaeza and Rosario Castellanos.

Selected publications Irán, la religión en la revolución (1981), Editorial Posada, with José Reveles and Julio Scherer García ¡Ay Nicaragua, Nicaragüita! (1986), Editorial Claves Latinoamericana, Mexico, Corramos libres ahora (1986, 1994, 2007) Amora (1989) Planeta , (1997) Editorial HORASyhoras (Spain), (1999, 2009) Raya en el Agua, Mexico El para siempre dura una noche (1999), Editorial Sentido Contrario, Mexico, En el fondo del mar no sólo hay peces (2010), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia