Mireya Cueto
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Mireya Cueto | |
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Born | Mexico City, Mexico | 3 February 1922
Died | 26 April 2013 | (aged 91)
Nationality | Mexican |
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Awards | international "Gorgorito" award of the UNIMA, 2006[1] |
Mireya Cueto (February 3, 1922 – April 26, 2013) was a Mexican puppeteer, writer and dramaturg. She was also co-founder of the national marionette museum Museo Nacional de Títeres (MUNATI) in Huamantla, Tlaxcala.
Biography
Cueto, born on February 3, 1922, in Mexico City, is one of two daughters of artists Lola and Gérman, who were also well-known puppeteers.
Since 2001, the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) has carried out annually the national puppetry festival "Festival Nacional de Títeres Mireya Cueto" in honor of her.[2] She died on April 26, 2013.[3]
References
- ^ Noticias / España: Galardonan a marionetista mexicana Mireya Cueto (in Spanish)
- ^ Dedican Festival Nacional de Títeres a Mireya Cueto (in Spanish)
- ^ Chabaud Magnus, Jaime (4 October 2013). "Dedican Feria del Libro Teatral a Mireya Cueto". Milenio (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 November 2013.
External links
- Mireya Cueto in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin
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- 1922 births
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- Mexican puppeteers
- Mexican women dramatists and playwrights
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- 20th-century Mexican dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Mexican women writers
- Female puppeteers