Adela Calva Reyes

Mexican writer, author and playwright

Adela Calva

Born	1967 (1967) San Ildefonso, Mexico
Died	2 March 2018(2018-03-02) (aged 50–51) Pachuca, Mexico
Occupation	Author and playwright
Genre	Otomi language poetry and prose

Adela Calva Reyes (1967 – 2 March 2018) was an indigenous Mexican writer, author and playwright of the Otomi people.

Biography

Adela was born in 1967 in San Ildefonso, Tepejí del Río, State of Hidalgo.^[1] She remembered poverty in her childhood.

She died on March 4, 2018, in Pachuca, State of Hidalgo.^[2]

^ Al rescate de la lengua madre…el hñahñu Archived 2014-09-09 at the Wayback Machine Nueva Imagen, periódico de Hidalgo, March 20, 2016.
^ Lourdes Naranjo (March 4, 2018), "Fallece escritora otomí Adela Calva", El Independiente de Hidalgo (in Spanish), archived from the original on October 7, 2019, retrieved October 7, 2019