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Mexican poet (1918–2000)

Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein[ɣwaˈðu.p teˈɾe.sa ˈa.moɾ ʃmit.lajn] (May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000), who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet.

Biography

She was born in Mexico City,^[1] the youngest child of a family with seven children, of mixed French, German and Spanish ancestry, a member of the Mexican aristocracy. Her parents were Carolina Schmidtlein y García Teruel (of German and Spanish origin) and Emmanuel Amor Subervielle (of Spanish and French origin). Her family's financial woes after the revolution are narrated in Yo soy mi casa. Amor was exposed to art at an early age through her sister Ines, who ran a gallery in Mexico City.^[2]

Amor defied the Catholic customs of her time. Her love life was intense and varied, she was a single mother, and expressed her doubts about God in her poetry.^[3] During her youth, she was an actress and a model for famous photographers and painters such as Diego Ri