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Gabriela Aguileta Estrada | |
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| Born | Elizabeth Gabriela Aguileta Estrada March 22, 1974 Mexico City, Mexico |
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| Education | PhD, licenciatura |
| Alma mater | University College London, UNAM |
| Period | 2000 - present |
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| Notable awards | Premio Castillo de la Lectura 2001 for "La conspiración de las tías" Premio Castillo de la Lectura 2000 for "El espejo en el agua" |
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Gabriela Aguileta Estrada (born 1974) is a Mexican writer of children's books and short stories. Born in Mexico City, she studied biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM in Mexico and in 2004 earned a doctorate in genetics from University College London (UK).[1] As scientist and writer she has studied, worked and lived in Israel, Canada, England, Sweden, France, Spain and Switzerland.[2] She was on the editorial board of the children's literary magazine La sonrisa del gato and in 2004 she was awarded a writer's fellowship from the National Foundation for Mexican Literature (Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas).[3] She has also authored three popular science books which allowed her to promote interest in science among children and young adults. Most of her work has been published in Spanish.
- ^ "XpertScientific".
- ^ "Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de Mexico".
- ^ "Fundacion para la letras Mexicanas". Archived from the original on 2014-02-28.