 She was awarded the National Prize for Literature with The Long Day Already Safe (1975).In 1976 she was Jury of the Romulo Gallegos Novel Prize, and, on the initiative of Oswaldo Trejo, directed the narrative workshop of the Celarg (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos), an experience that led her to open her own narrative workshop at her house in Altamira, which she called "Calicanto".From there came the publication of “Leaves of calicanto” which collected the work of the workshop workers.