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Mexican Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Mexico or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Liliana Abud (born 1948), actress, screenwriter *Griselda Álvarez (1913–2009), state governor, poet *Pita Amor, pen name of Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (1918–2000), actress, poet * María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio (1695–1756), nun, respected religious writer *Brigitte Alexander (1911–1995), German-born Mexican playwright, memoirist, actress, translator * María Luisa Algarra (1916–1957), Spanish-born Mexican playwright * Carolina Amor de Fournier (1908–1993), editor, publisher, non-fiction writer, translator * Tamara De Anda (born 1983), feminist activist and writer *Ikram Antaki (1948–2000), Syrian-born Mexican poet, essayist, translator, wrote in Spanish, French and Arabic * Elvia Ardalani (born 1963), poet, short story writer *Araceli Ardón (born 1958), journalist, novelist, short story writer * Inés Arredondo (1928–1989), Mexican w ... [...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] |
Carmen Barajas Sandoval
Carmen Barajas Sandoval (Countess of Bragny. Countess of Barajas) (May 19, 1925 - November 5, 2014) was a Mexican aristocrat, film executive producer, best-selling author and internationally known socialite, famous for her Mexican and international films and later in her life, by her biographies of stars such as María Félix and Jorge Negrete. Family She was born Maria Del Carmen Barajas Y De Sandoval Paullada in Mexico City, Mexico. Her parents were Lorenzo Barajas and Edelmira Sandoval Paullada Escoffier. Her mother was a descendant of Charles Louis Escoffier, Count of Bragny, a member of the House of Bourbon-Montpensier. He was a director of the Royal Academy of Surgery and personal physician to Louis XVI of France. During the French Revolution (1789–1799), Bragny left France and settled in Campeche, Campeche, Viceroyalty of New Spain. His father was the grandson of Fernando De Barajas Y De Fernán Nuñez, Count of Barajas. Biography Carajas Sandoval was born on M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adela Calva Reyes
Adela Calva Reyes (1967 – 2 March 2018) was an indigenous Mexican writer, author and playwright of the Otomi people. Biography Adela was born in 1967 in San Ildefonso, Tepejí del Río, State of Hidalgo. She remembered poverty in her childhood. She died on March 4, 2018 in Pachuca, State of Hidalgo. Works * Ra hua ra hiä ''Alas a la palabra'' (2008, Conaculta) See also * Otomi language Otomi (; ) is an Oto-Pamean languages, Oto-Pamean language family spoken by approximately 240,000 indigenous Otomi people in the Mexican Plateau, central ''altiplano'' region of Mexico. Otomi consists of several closely related languages, many ... References 1967 births 2018 deaths Writers from Hidalgo (state) Native American women writers Otomi people Indigenous Mexican women 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century Native Americans 20th-century Native American women 21st-century Native American women {{Mexico-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Cacho
Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (born 12 April 1963) is a Mexican journalist, feminist, and human rights activist. Described by Amnesty International as "perhaps Mexico's most famous investigative journalist and women's rights advocate", Cacho's reporting focuses on violence against and sexual abuse of women and children. Her book ''Los Demonios del Edén'' (in English: ''The Demons of Eden'') (2004) created a nationwide scandal by alleging that several prominent businessmen had conspired to protect a pedophilia ring. In 2006, a tape emerged of a conversation between businessman Kamel Nacif Borge and Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, governor of Puebla, in which they conspired to have Cacho beaten and raped for her reporting. Marín Torres was arrested for the alleged torture on 3 February 2021. Cacho is the winner of numerous international awards for her journalism, including the Civil Courage Prize, the Wallenberg Medal, and the Olof Palme Prize. In 2010, she was named a World Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalia González Caballero De Castillo Ledón
Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón (1898 - 1986) was a Mexican diplomat, cabinet minister, minister plenipotentiary, writer, and the first female member of a presidential cabinet. She distinguished herself for fighting for women rights including her efforts to secure women's voting rights in 1952. Castillo Ledon studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She was founder and chair of Club Internacional de Mujeres (1932) and the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres (1937). She also founded the Teatro de Masas. She was associated with the journal ''Hogar'' and was a columnist for ''Excelsior''. Since 2012, her remains rest in the Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres. Biography Amalia González Caballero was born on 18 August 1898 in the San Jerónimo neighborhood of Santander Jiménez, located in the Jiménez Municipality of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico to Vicente González Garcilazo and Doña María Caballero Garza. She completed primary school in Padilla and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Maritza is a name of Spanish and German origin and may refer to: *Maritza Correia (born 1981), Puerto Rican swimmer * Maritza Olivares, Mexican actress *Maritza Rodríguez, Colombian actress *Maritza Salas (born 1975), Puerto Rican track and field athlete *Maritza Sayalero (born 1961), Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder *Sari Maritza (1910–1987), English actress See also *Maritsa, longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkans. *Maritsa Iztok Complex, Bulgarian power complex *''Countess Maritza ''Gräfin Mariza'' (''Countess Maritza'') is an operetta in three acts composed by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, with a German libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. It premiered in Vienna on 28 February 1924 at the Theater an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esperanza Brito De Martí
Esperanza Brito de Martí (1932 - 16 August 2007) was a Mexican journalist, feminist and reproductive rights activist. She was the director of '' Fem'' magazine for nearly 30 years and wrote as a correspondent for several newspapers and magazines. Her journalism was honored with the National Journalism Prize "Juan Ignacio Castorena y Visúa". She was an advocate for both contraception and abortion rights. Through her many activities, she co-founded the Coalición de Mujeres Feministas, the Movimiento Nacional de Mujeres and pressed for the founding of the first Rape Crisis and Guidance Center (Coapevi), first agency for dealing specifically with sexual crimes, first Center for Domestic and Sexual Violence (NOTIFY). In 1998, the first Center for Support of Women which was named after her was opened. Biography Esperanza Brito Moreno was born in 1932 in Mexico City to the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Rodulfo Brito Foucher and the writer and feminist Espera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Brenner
Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner; 13 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual, who wrote extensively in English about the art, culture, and history of Mexico. She was born in Mexico, raised and educated in the U.S., and returned to Mexico in the 1920s following the Mexican Revolution. She coined the term 'Mexican Renaissance', "to describe the cultural florescence hatemerged from the revolution." As a child of immigrants, Brenner's heritage caused her to experience both antisemitism and acceptance. Fleeing discrimination in Texas, she found mentors and colleagues among the European Jewish diaspora living in both Mexico and New York, but Mexico, not the US or Europe, held her loyalty and enduring interest. She was part of the post-Revolutionary art movement known for its indigenista ideology. Brenner earned a PhD in anthropology at Columbia University and her first book, ''Idols Behind Altars'' was the first book to document the artwor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Bracho
Coral Bracho (born 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, translator, and doctor of Literature. Bracho is winner of the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize in 1981 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She received the 2004 Xavier Villaurrutia Award for her book, ''Ese Espacio, Ese Jardin.'' She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (National Artists’ Center), and in 2007 she was awarded the award “Programa de Aliento a la Obra Literaria de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas” in recognition of her work. Works Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City in 1951. She has published six books of poems: Peces de piel fugaz ish of Fleeting Skin(1977), El ser que va a morir he Being that is Going to Die(1981), Tierra de entraña ardiente arth of Burning Entrails(in collaboration with the painter Irma Palacios, 1992), La voluntad del ámbar he Will of Amber(1998), Ese espacio, ese jardín hat Space, That Garden(2003), and Cuarto de hotel (2007). Her poems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliana V
Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Liliana Abud, Mexican actress in telenovelas and cinema *Liliana Allen (born 1970), Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico *Liliana Leah Archibald (1928–2014), English insurance broker *Liliana Ayalde, American diplomat, former United States ambassador to Brazil * Liliana Barba, Latin American voice actress * Liliana V. Blum (born 1974), Mexican short story writer * Liliana Campos (born 1971), Portuguese television presenter and model *Liliana Castro (born 1979), Ecuadorian-born Brazilian actress *Liliana Cavani (born 1933), Italian film director and screenwriter * Liliana Chalá (born 1965), female athlete from Ecuador * Liliana Díaz Mindurry (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Boullosa
Carmen Boullosa (born September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context. It has been praised by a number of writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Alma Guillermoprieto, Roberto Bolaño and Elena Poniatowska, as well as publications such as ''Publishers Weekly''. Early life Boullosa was born on September 4, 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico. Career Boullosa has published eighteen novels. Though all different from one another, on theme and form, Boullosa's style has a distinctive personality. One of her novels, ''Son vacas, somos puercos'' (1991, translated into English in 1997 as ''They're Cows, We're Pigs'') is narrated in the first person by an old man looking back on his life. He was kidnapped and sent from his native France on a slave ship to the West Indies at the age of thirteen. To gain his freedom, he joins a group of pirates (or "pigs"), allowing Boull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva Bloom
Minerva Bloom was a bilingual poet and nature photographer born in 1959 in Tinguindin, Michoacán a small town nestled in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. She had living and is a citizen of the US, since 1983 and writes poetry both in English and her native Spanish language. She lived in the state of Florida. Minerva Bloom published books of photography, poetry, and naval history, and contributed for several international poetry and art anthologies. In the years 1999 and 2000 she worked with Nobel Prize candidate Marcia Theophilo in the translation of selected poems. Her nature photography has been chosen by several international poetry authors for their book covers. On the Internet, her contributions can be found at several journals and literary zines dedicated to the art of haiga and haiku is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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