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Margarita Urueta (Mexico City, 13 November 1918 - Cuernavaca, 2004) was a Mexican writer.[1] She wrote plays, novels and essays, both for the general public and for children. Her style ranges from realism to avant-garde and absurdist.[2]
Margarita Urueta began writing at the age of seven. As a young girl, she made a trip to Europe, where she studied and became acquainted with the new trends in theatre and which would later influence her own works.[3]
She was primarily noted as dramaturge. She held the position of president of the Teatro de México and was the owner of the Jesús Urueta Theatre in Mexico City.[4]
She was the daughter of the Mexican revolutionary Jesús Urueta and author of his biography, entitled Jesús Urueta. Historia de un gran desamor and published in 1964.[4]
She was the sister of Cordelia Urueta, a noted painter, and the prominent filmmaker Chano Urueta, both Mexican.
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