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National Prize For Arts And Sciences (Mexico)
The National Prize for Arts and Sciences () is awarded annually by the Government of Mexico in six categories. It is part of the Mexican Honours System and was established in 1945 by President Manuel Ávila Camacho to promote the country's artistic, scientific, and technological advancement. It is awarded yearly to one or more persons that meets the conditions of the prize, in one of the following categories: * Linguistics and literature * Fine Arts * History, Social Sciences and Philosophy * Popular arts and traditions * Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences * Technology and Design In the case of the Popular arts and traditions category, the prize can also be awarded to groups, non-governmental organizations and institutions. In 2015, the prize was divided between National Prize for Arts and Literature () and National Prize for Science – ''José Mario Molina Pasquel y Henríquez'' (). The former is awarded by the Secretariat of Culture and the latter by Secretariat of Publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Mexico
The Federal government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or ' or ') is the national government of the Mexico, United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the republic with the governments of the 31 individual Mexican states, and to represent such governments before international bodies such as the United Nations. The Mexican federal government has three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial and functions per the Constitution of Mexico, Constitution of the United Mexican States, as enacted in 1917, and as amended. The executive power is exercised by the executive branch, which is headed by the president and her Cabinet of Mexico, Cabinet, which, together, are independent of the legislature. Legislative power is vested upon the Congress of Mexico, Congress of the Union, a bicameral legislature comprising the Senate of Mexico, Senate and the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, Chamber of Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Rulfo
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo (; 16 May 1917 – 7 January 1986), was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel ''Pedro Páramo'', and the collection of short stories '' El Llano en llamas'' (1953). This collection includes the popular tale "¡Diles que no me maten!" ("Tell Them Not to Kill Me!"). Early life Rulfo was born in 1917 in Apulco, Jalisco (Disputed as being in San Gabriel, Jalisco) Mexico, although he was registered at Sayula, in the home of his paternal grandfather. Rulfo's birth year was often listed as 1918, because he had provided an inaccurate date to get into the military academy that his uncle, David Pérez Rulfo — a colonel working for the government — directed. After his father was killed in 1923 and his mother died in 1927, Rulfo's grandmother raised him in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Their extended family consisted of landowners whose fortunes were rui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Sabines
Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his work has been translated into more than twelve languages. His writings chronicle the experience of everyday people in places such as the street, hospital, and playground. Sabines was also a politician. Biography Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez was born on March 25, 1926, in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. He was of Lebanese and Spanish descent. Before he devoted himself to the study of literature, he spent three years studying medicine before moving on to his real vocation:literature, studying at UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Sabines was an outstanding member of the Mexican Writers Centre from 1964 to 1965 and part of the jury for the Casa de las Americas prize. In addition to his literary activity, he participated in politics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elías Nandino
Elías Nandino (April 19, 1900 – October 3, 1993) was a Mexican poet. Biography Nandino was born in Cocula, Jalisco. As a boy, he was brought up in the Catholic religion and served as an altar boy. He also attended Catholic school. Nandino's first homosexual encounters were apparently initiated by Catholic priests he knew. Nandino was friends with boys who were able to express their homosexual desires secretly and discreetly at the schools. Nandino studied medicine in Cocula and Guadalajara and finally at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City where he "graduated as a surgeon in 1930." From 1928 to 1934, he lived in Los Angeles, where he completed his medical internship. Nandino was influenced to start writing poetry when he was seventeen, by Manuel M. Flores and writer, Manuel Acuña. His was first published at age nineteen in ''Bohemia'', in Guadalajara. At UNAM, he created the journal, ''Allis Vivere'', where students could publish their own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauricio Magdaleno
Mauricio Magdaleno Cardona (13 May 1906 – 30 June 1986), better known as Mauricio Magdaleno, was a Mexican screenwriter and occasional director of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was nominated for six Ariel Awards and won for his second nomination for '' Río Escondido'' in 1949. Magdaleno was also a well-known journalist, writer, and politician. Selected filmography * '' Wild Flower'' (1943) * ''Michael Strogoff'' (1944) * ''Tragic Wedding'' (1946) * '' Pepita Jiménez'' (1946) * '' Everybody's Woman'' (1946) * '' Gran Casino'' (1947) * '' The Unloved Woman'' (1949) * '' Coquette'' (1949) * '' Salón México'' (1949) * '' Between Your Love and Heaven'' (1950) * '' Duel in the Mountains'' (1950) * '' Red Rain'' (1950) * '' Orange Blossom for Your Wedding'' (1950) * '' Love for Love'' (1950) * ''History of a Heart'' (1951) * '' Women's Prison'' (1951) * '' Maria Islands'' (1951) * '' Forever Yours'' (1952) * ''The Three Perfect Wives ''The Three Perfect Wives'' (Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Martínez Rodríguez
José Luis Martínez Rodríguez (b. 1918 in Atoyac, Jalisco; d. 2007, Mexico City) was a Mexican academic, diplomat, essayist, historian, bibliographer and editor. He was the director of the Fondo de Cultura Económica from 1977 to 1982 and professor of literature with the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Career He became an Academic Numerary of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua in 1960. From 1980 to 2002 he was the Director and, in 2003, was named Honorary Director in perpetuity. He was also a numerary at the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (Chair 28), beginning in 1993, and a corresponding member of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua and the Academia Dominicana de la Lengua. From 1965 to 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan José Arreola
Juan José Arreola Zúñiga (September 21, 1918 – December 3, 2001) was a Mexican writer, academic, and actor. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the 20th century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he used elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Although he is little known outside Mexico, Arreola has served as the literary inspiration for a legion of Mexican writers who have sought to transform their country's realistic literary tradition by introducing elements of magical realism, satire, and allegory. Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered one of the masters of the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. Arreola is primarily known for his short stories and he only published one novel, (The Fair; 1963). Life and career Early life Arreola was born on September 21, 1918, in Zapotlán el Grande (modern-day Ciudad Guzmán), in the state of Jalisco. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Early life Octavio Paz was born near Mexico City. His family was a prominent liberal political family in Mexico, with Spanish and indigenous Mexican roots. His grandfather, Ireneo Paz, the family's patriarch, fought in the War of the Reform against conservatives, and then became a staunch supporter of liberal war hero Porfirio Díaz up until just before the 1910 outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Ireneo Paz became an intellectual and journalist, starting several newspapers, where he was publisher and printer. Ireneo's son, Octavio Paz Solórzano, supported Emiliano Zapata during the Revolution, and published an early biography of him and the Zapatista movement. Octavio was named for him, but s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efraín Huerta
Efraín Huerta Roma (June 18, 1914 – February 3, 1982) was a Mexican poet and journalist. Born and raised in the state of Guanajuato, he moved to Mexico City initially to start a career in art. Unable to enter the Academy of San Carlos, he attended the Escuela Preparatoria Nacional, where he met writers such as Rafael Solana, Carmen Toscano and Octavio Paz. He had been writing poetry since he was young, but initially opted to attend law school; however, when he published his first book of poems, he left it to pursue writing full-time. As a poet, he published regularly from the 1930s to the 1980s, and as a journalist collaborated with over twenty newspapers and journals, under his own name and using pseudonyms. He was also active politically, a communist and Stalin supporter through his life with his social and political ideas finding their way into his writing. Poetically, he is part of the Taller generation of Mexican poets, although his development was a bit different fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Monterde
Francisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta (August 9, 1894 in Mexico City – February 27, 1985 in Mexico City) was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He was an important promoter of the arts and culture in Mexico in the years following the Revolution. Bibliography His parents were Francisco de Asís Ángel María Monterde y Adalid and María Trinidad de los Dolores García Icazbalceta y Travesi de Monterde, aristocrats who both died when he was still young. He studied dentistry but never practiced. In 1924 he founded and edited the short-lived Mexican avant-garde cultural magazine ''Antena''. In 1925 he famously deciphered a letter that conquistador Hernán Cortés left written in code. He wrote, in addition to plays and poetry, various novels set in colonial Mexico, a genre known as ''colonialista''. In 1930 he created in conjunction with Alejandro Gómez Arias, the department of Mexican and Hispano-American Literature a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (12 November 1923 – 31 January 2013) was a Mexican poet and classics, classical scholar. Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he began lecturing in Latin at the UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (UNAM), Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and received a doctorate in Classics in 1970. Among his publications are translations of works by Catullus, Propertius, Ovid, Lucretius and others into Spanish; his translation of Vergil's Aeneid (1972–73) was particularly well received. He was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language since 1963 and was admitted to the Colegio Nacional (Mexico), Colegio Nacional in 1972. Selected works * ''El Ala del Tigre'', Fondo de Cultura Económica (1969) * ''Del Templo de Su Cuerpo'', Fondo de Cultura Económica (1993) * ''De Otro Modo, lo Mismo'', Fondo de Cultura Económica (1996) * ''Fuego de Pobres'', Fondo de Cultura E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmundo O'Gorman
Edmundo O'Gorman (24 November 1906 in Mexico City – 28 September 1995 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian and philosopher. He is considered as being among the earlier and most influential applicants of historical revisionism to commonly held narratives regarding the Spanish colonial period in Latin America. Early life and education O'Gorman was born in Coyoacán, in the southern part of Mexico City. He was the son of painter and mining engineer Cecil Crawford O'Gorman, an Irishman who emigrated to Mexico in 1895, and the great-great-nephew of the first British consul to Mexico City, Charles O'Gorman, who later married a Mexican citizen. He was the younger brother of celebrated architect and painter Juan O'Gorman. He graduated with a degree in Law (1928) from the Escuela Libre de Derecho. In 1940 he began lecturing in the Philosophy faculty of Mexico City College. In 1948 he obtained a Masters in Philosophy and in 1951 he completed his doctorate in History wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
