Dolores Castro

Dolores Castro Varela (12 April 1923 – 30 March 2022) was a Mexican poet, narrator, essayist and literary critic.

Biography
Castro was a professor of literature at institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana and Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septién García. She was the founder of Radio UNAM and producer of radio programs. She also hosted the program Poetas de México on Canal 11 with Alejandro Avilés. She collaborated in the direction of Cultural Diffusion of the University. She served as editor-in-chief and contributor to Barcos de Papel. She was a member of the editorial board of Summa Bibliographical. Fuensanta, The Word and The Man, Level, Poetry of America, Bibliographic Sum, and Magazine of the UIA. HIS poems of hers What is lived? She won the National Prize for Poetry of Mazatlan in 1980. She won the National Prize for Sciences and Arts in Literature and Linguistics in 2014. In 2008, the INBA paid her a tribute for her 85 years of life. In 2014, the INBA paid tribute to her with the editorial presentation Dolores Castro, 90 years old: word and time.

Castro has been for decades the teacher of many generations of poets. She was also part of the group Eight Mexican Poets, made up of Alejandro Avilés, Roberto Cabral del Hoyo, Javier Peñalosa, Honorato Magaloni Duarte, Efrén Hernández, Octavio Novaro and Rosario Castellanos.