![]() ![]() ![]() Between 19 Galindo served in a variety of positions for the National Institute of Fine Arts and the Secretariat of Public Education. ![]() In addition to his literary production, from 1957 to 1964 Galindo edited the journal La Palabra y el Hombre (Word and Man) and directed the publishing department of the University of Veracruz, where he inaugurated an influential fiction series. In contrast to the predominant emphasis on national identity in Mexican literature, such psychological concerns emphasize widely shared human behaviors. In his writing, Galindo explores the tensions in middle-class Mexican families and the dynamics of intimate relationships. Galindo received the 1986 Premio Xavier Villaurrutía for his novel Otilia Rauda (1986). They include Polvos de arroz (Rice Powder, 1958), Justicia de enero (Justice in January, 1959), El bordo (The Precipice, 1960), and La comparsa (Carnival, 1964). Born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Galindo first published a collection of short stories in 1951, La máquina vacía (The Empty Machine), and in the following years produced a sizable corpus of narrative, mainly novels. ![]()
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