 She has been awarded several national and international literary awards for her works, including one from the Society of Spanish and Iberoamerican Writers in 1961, the Ricardo Miró National Prize for an essay or novel in 1966, the Central American Novel Prize in 1976, two awards (essay and short story) from the magazine Lotería in 1971 and 1996 and the National Short Story Award from the city of Bogotá, Colombia, in 1996.The jury underlined the fact that one of the reasons for selecting the book for this particular award was that it was the first postmodern short-story book ever to be published in the region.In 2000, her novel "Libertad en llamas" was short listed for the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Novel Prize in Mexico.