Literary Contributions
Her literary work includes novels, essays, short stories and critical studies. She has been awarded several literary prizes for her works, including an award from the Society of Spanish and Iberoamerican Writers in 1961, the Ricardo Miró National Prize for an essay or novel in 1966, the Central American Novel Prize in 1976, a prize from the magazine Lotería in 1971 and 1984, and the National Story Prize from the city of Bogotá, Colombia, in 1996. In 2000, her novel 'Libertad en llamas was one of two finalists for the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Novel Prize in Mexico. In 2007, the Rockefeller Foundation selected her to be one of their novelist-in residence at The Bellagio Center, where she wrote her lasted novel El jardín de las cenizas (Alfaguara, 2011) the third part of the trilogy Maramargo.
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