Aline Pettersson is a Mexican novelist and poet. Her novels deal with the themes of loneliness, heartbreak, isolation and the passage of time that razes all.

Early life

Petterson was born in

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on 11 May 1938. Her father was the son of

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parents. Pettersson recounts beginning to read with the children's books of author Monteiro Lobato. She was later introduced to the works of

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, Luego vino Salgari and

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. Pettersson intended to study medicine, however she married young and had three children, but continued to write. She began to take courses at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the

UNAM 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 bigge ...

Career

In 1977, with the help of writer

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 ...

, Pettersson published her first novel, ''Círculos''. A majority of her protagonists are women. One of her favorite literary devices is the use of

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- which she uses to explore "imaginary time" not real time. Her writing has been influenced by

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...

and Marcel Proust. Pettersson is a member of the ''Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte del Fonca-

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''. She won the 1998 Premio Latinoamericano y del Caribe "

Gabriela Mistral Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Li ...

". The

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paid homage to Pettersson in 2008. She has been a collaborator with newspapers '' El Universal'' and ''

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''. She has translated '' Sorgegondolen'' (''La fúnebre góndola'', 2012) by Swedish poet

Tomas Tranströmer Tomas Gösta Tranströmer (; 15 April 1931 – 26 March 2015) was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's ...

Bibliography

;Poetry *''Tres poemas''. Mexico: Oasis (Los Libros del Fakir; 71), 1985. *''Cautiva estoy de mí''. Mexico: Secretaría de Educación Pública / Plaza y Valdés (El Nigromante), 1988. *''Enmudeció mi playa''. Ilustración de Gilda Castillo. Mexico: Galería López Quiroga, 2000. *Recuento. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Voz Viva de México), 2002. *''Estancias del tiempo''. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica (Letras Mexicanas), 2003. *''Carta a mi madre''. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes / Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes / Calamus Editorial (Poesía), 2007. *''Ya era tarde''. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013. ;Prose *'' Círculos''. Mexico: Coordinación de Difusión Cultural (UNAM), 1977. *'' Casi en silencio''. Tlahuapan, Puebla: Premià (La Red de Jonás. Sección de Literatura Mexicana; 8), 1980. *'' Proyectos de muerte''. Mexico: Martín Casillas, 1983. *''Los colores ocultos''. Mexico: Grijalbo, 1986. *''Sombra ella misma''. Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana (Ficción), 1986. *''Piedra que rueda''. Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz (Novelistas Contemporáneos), 1990. *''Querida familia''. Mexico: Diana, 1991. *''La noche de las hormigas''. Mexico: Alfaguara, 1996. *''Mistificaciones''. México, D.F.: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Aldus, 1996. *''Colores y sombras''. Tres novelas. Presentación de Silvia Molina. México, D.F: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes / Dirección General de Publicaciones ONACULTA(Lecturas Mexicanas. Cuarta Serie), 1998. *''Las muertes de Natalia Bauer''. Mexico: Alfaguara, 2006. *''Deseo''. Mexico: Alfaguara, 2011. *'' A la intemperie''. Mexico: Alfaguara, 2014. *''Clara y el cangrejo''. Mexico: Dirección General de Publicaciones del Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (La Tortuga Veloz), 1990. *''Más allá de la mirada''. Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1992. *''Ontario, la mariposa viajera''. México, D.F.: Alfaguara (Alfaguara Infantil), 1993. *'' Aline Pettersson''. Selección y nota introductoria de María Luisa Mendoza. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Material de Lectura. Serie El Cuento Contemporáneo; 100) / Dirección de Literatura NAM 1995. *''Renata y su gato''. México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes ( El Sueño del dragón), 1996. *''Fer y la princesa''. México, D.F.: Andrés Bello, 1997. *''La princesa era traviesa''. México, D.F.: Alfaguara (Alfaguara Infantil), 1998. *''Tiempo robado''. Mexico: Alfaguara, 1999. *''El papalote y el nopal''. México, D.F.: Alfaguara (Alfaguara Infantil), 2000. *''Renata y sus curitas''. Mexico: Alfaguara (Alfaguara Infantil), 2000. *''Renata y su sorpresa''. México, D.F.: Alfaguara (Alfaguara Infantil), 2001. *''Renata y su día al revés''. México, D.F.: Alfaguara (Alfaguara Infantil), 2002. *''Los anteojos de Mariflor''. Barcelona: Norma (Torre de Papel: Amarilla), 2003. *''Las batallas de Andrés''. México: Alfaguara (Alfaguara Infantil), 2004. *''Vajes paralelos'' Mexico: Alfaguara, 2002.

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Aline Pettersson
at the ''Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Pettersson, Aline 1938 births Living people Writers from Mexico City Mexican women novelists Mexican women poets Mexican women short story writers Mexican short story writers Mexican people of Swedish descent