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Born in Mexico City, MexicoBenjamin Castellanos born
Family returns to Comitan, ChiapasBenjamin dies at age 7Castellanos' first poem is published in a student magazineLazaro Cardenas' Land Reform Program
Family moves to Mexico CityParents die within a month of each otherOn Feminine Culture (Master's degree in philosophy)
Studies at the University of Madrid
Travels throughout Europe with Dolores CastroReturns to Mexico
Bout of Tuberculosis (spends over a year recovering)El rescate del mundo Published (book of poems)Balún Canán Published (Castellanos' first novel)
-Mexican Critics' award for the best novel of 1957
-Chiapas Prize 1958Returns to Chiapas
-National Indigenous Institute Puppet TheaterOficio de tinieblas Published
Materia memorable PublishedMarries Ricardo GuerraGabriel Guerra Castellanos bornLivida Luz Published
Becomes Press and Information Director for National University of Mexico (until 1966)Visiting Professorships at Universities of Wisconsin, Indiana, and Colorado
Divorces Ricardo GuerraNamed Mexican ambassador to Israel
Mujer que sabe latin Published (collection of essays)Dies by accidental electrocution in Tel AvivNational Autonomous University of Mexico, College of Philosophy and Letters
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