Amparo Dávila

Amparo Dávila (February 28, 1928 – April 18, 2020) was a Mexican writer best known for her short stories touching on the fantastic and the uncanny. She won the Xavier Villarrutia Award in 1977 for her short story collection, ''Árboles petrificados''. In 2015 a literary prize in her honor was created in Mexico for the best story within the genre of "the fantastic": the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190105043446/https://literatura.inba.gob.mx/convocatoria/5988-premio-bellas-artes-de-cuento-amparo-d%C3%A1vila-2018.html Premio Bellas Artes del Cuento Fantástico Amparo Dávila]. Provided by Wikipedia