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List Of Mexican Writers
This is a list of Mexican writers. *Isabel Fraire Guggenheim Fellowship; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; * Celso Aguirre Bernal *José Agustín Guggenheim Fellowship; *Carmen Alardín Xavier Villaurrutia Award; * Elizabeth Algrávez poet *Claudia Amengual Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize; *Araceli Ardón Rosario Castellanos Prize; *Alejandro Ariceaga *Homero Aridjis Neustadt Prize Candidate; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship;Roger Caillois Prize; Grinzane Cavour Prize; Smederevo Golden Key; *Juan José Arreola Juan Rulfo Prize; National Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Alfonso Reyes Prize * Francisco Azuela Order of the Liberator of Central-America *Mario Bellatin Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship *Rubén Bonifaz Nuño Alfonso Reyes Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship; * Carmen Boullosa Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship * Coral Bracho Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; *Federico Campbell Guggenheim Fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico Campbell
Federico Campbell Quiroz (July 1, 1941 – February 15, 2014) was a Mexican writer. Campbell is known for the short story collection ''Tijuanenses'' (Tijuana: Stories on the Border).LA Times, November 01, 2004 "His treasured Tijuana" by Reed Johnson In 2000, he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel '' Transpeninsular''. In 1995, he was awarded the J. S. . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Elizondo
Salvador Elizondo Alcalde (Mexico City, December 19, 1932 - March 29, 2006) was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature. Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style literature in Latin America, he wrote as a novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and journalist. His most famous novels are ''Farabeuf'' (1965) and ''El hipogeo Secreto'' (1968). He is also known for ''El grafógrafo'' (1972) which is a series of short texts based on linguistic abbreviatory experimentation. ''Farabeuf'' (tr. John Incledon) was published in English bOx & Pigeonin 2015. His style is considered innovative among Mexican contemporary literature for introducing a cosmopolitan view of language and narrative, bringing elements from external literary currents and languages to a refined dialogue of thought and communication. His technique is considered rather unrealistic and proto-fictional, as opposed to magical realism. Some cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Del Paso
Fernando del Paso Morante (April 1, 1935 – November 14, 2018) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet. Biography Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He lived in London for 14 years, where he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation and in France, where he worked for Radio France Internationale and briefly served as Consul General of Mexico. He has been a member of El Colegio Nacional de México since 1996 and won several international awards, including the Premio Miguel de Cervantes (2015), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2013), the FIL Literature Prize (2007) Guadalajara International Book Fair), the Rómulo Gallegos Prize (1982), the Best Novel Published in France Award (1985) for ''Palinurus of Mexico'', the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1966) and the Mexico Novel Award (1976). ''Noticias del Imperio'' (1986) is an important contribution to the Latin American new histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto De La Peña
Ernesto de la Peña (; 21 November 1927 – 10 September 2012) was a Mexican writer, translator and cultural advocate. Peña was also a linguist and polyglot who studied thirty-three languages, as varied as Latin language, Latin, Greek language, Greek, Hebrew language, Hebrew and Sanskrit language, Sanskrit. He joined the Mexican Academy of the Language in 1993 and was a member of the Royal Spanish Language Academy. He studied classical literature at National Autonomous University of Mexico. His most famous books included ''The Stratagems of God'', published in 1988; ''The Indelible Borrelli Case'' in 1992; ''Mineralogy For Intruders'' in 1999; and ''The Transfigured Rose'', also released in 1999. De la Peña was the recipient of the National Jose Pages Llergo Prize for Cultural Journalism, the National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Mexico), National Prize for Arts and Sciences for linguistics in 2003, and the Fine Arts Gold Medal in 2007. In August 2012, Mexican Ambassador to Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalupe Dueñas
Guadalupe Dueñas (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 19 October 1910 – México, DF, 13 January 2002) was a 20th-century Mexican short story writer and essayist. Biography Dueñas was the first-born daughter from the marriage between Miguel Dueñas Padilla (Spanish descent) and Guadalupe de la Madrid García, first cousin to former president of Mexico Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and Enrique O. De la Madrid's granddaughter. Her father was a student at the Catholic Seminary. On a trip to Colima, he met the fourteen-year-old teenager of Lebanese origin, Guadalupe de la Madrid, and left the seminary. He had her placed in a school, since she was still too young to marry. When she was of age, they married and moved to Guadalajara. The couple formed a large family—fourteen children—eight of which reached adulthood: Guadalupe, Miguel (who died in an accident at age twenty-three), Carmelita, Gloria, Lourdes, Luz María, Manuel and María de los Ángeles. Apart from these small family signs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amparo Dávila
Amparo Dávila (February 28, 1928 – April 18, 2020) was a Mexican writer best known for her short stories touching on the fantastic and the uncanny. She won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award, Xavier Villarrutia Award in 1977 for her short story collection, ''Árboles petrificados''. In 2015 a literary prize in her honor was created in Mexico for the best story within the genre of "the fantastic": thPremio Bellas Artes del Cuento Fantástico Amparo Dávila Life Dávila was born in Pinos, Zacatecas, Pinos, a town in Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, Mexico. She learned to love reading at an early age by spending time in her father's library. Her childhood was marked by fear, a theme that appeared in a number of her future works as an author. Her first published work was ''Salmos bajo la luna'' in 1950. This was followed by ''Meditaciones a la orilla del sueńo'' and ''Perfil de soledades''. In 1954 she moved to Mexico City where she worked as Alfonso Reyes's secretary. In 1966 she was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosina Conde
Rosina Conde (; born February 10, 1954), is a Mexican narrator, playwright and poet. Biography Hilda Rosina Conde Zambada was born in Mexicali, Baja California, February 10, 1954. She is the daughter of musicians and composers Guillermo Conde and Laura Mabel Zambada Valdez. At the age of four, she moved to Tijuana where poems and songs were part of her education from an early age:— At the age of six, Conde starting writing songs, and at the age of nine, she began writing stories. During her secondary education, she developed a taste for reading authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Honoré de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, and Anton Chekhov. Conde began to write poetry as well as creating, acting and staging plays. In 1976, she decided to return to Tijuana, where she began to publish poems for the magazine ''Hojas'', during workshops of the Autonomous University of Baja California. She studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bárbara Colio
Bárbara Colio (born 1969) is a Mexican playwright and theater director. She was born in Mexicali in Baja California. She studied engineering at Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) where she also started her theatrical career, first appearing as an actress in 1988. In 1998, she moved to Madrid, Spain, to study with the writer Jose Sanchis Sinisterra. In 2000, Colio was the first Mexican playwright officially invited to an International Residency at the Royal Court Theater in London. Work Colio has written more than 30 plays, including ''La boca de lobo'', ''Pequeñas certezas'', ''Usted está aquí'', ''El día más violento'', ''Ventana Amarilla'', ''Cuerdas'', ''Instinto, Humedad, Latir''. ''La boca de lobo'' was produced at the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Clavel
Ana V. Clavel is a Mexican writer. Clavel was born December 16, 1961 in Mexico City. She received a bachelor's degree in Hispanic Language and Literature and master's in Latin American Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ... (UNAM). Her more recent novels have incorporated multimedia elements, such as art and photography installations and video performance. Awards and honors Publications Novels * * * * * * * * Anthology contributions * * Short story collections * * * References 1961 births Living people Mexican women novelists Mexican women short story writers Mexican short story writers Writers from Mexico City {{Mexico-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Chumacero
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. The issue of his succession caused a major rift between Muslims and divided them into Shia and Sunni groups. Ali was assassinated in the Grand Mosque of Kufa in 661 by the forces of Mu'awiya, who went on to found the Umayyad Caliphate. The Imam Ali Shrine and the city of Najaf were built around Ali's tomb and it is visited yearly by millions of devotees. Ali was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, raised by him from the age of 5, and accepted his claim of divine revelation by age 11, being among the first to do so. Ali played a pivotal role in the early years of Islam while Muhammad was in Mecca and under severe persecution. After Muhammad's relocation to Medina in 622, Ali married his daughter Fatima and, among others, fathered Hasan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosario Castellanos
Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. She was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced Mexican feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today. Life Born in Mexico City, she was raised in Comitán near her family's ranch in the southern state of Chiapas. She was an introverted young girl, who took notice of the plight of the indigenous Maya who worked for her family. According to her own account, she felt estranged from her family after a soothsayer predicted that one of her mother's two children would die shortly, and her mother screamed out, "Not the boy!" The family's fortunes changed suddenly when President Lázaro Cárdenas enacted a land reform and peasant emancipati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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