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José Agustín (José Agustín Ramirez Gómez)

Born: 19 AUG 1944 – Huatla, Oaxaca, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Juan Ruiz de Alarcón Prize (1974)
  2. Colino Prize (1982)

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Born: 11 NOV 1834 – Tixtla (Ciudad Guerrero), Guerrero, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? 1893) – Europe

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

Juan José Arreola

Born: 12 SEP 1918 – Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Institute of Fine Arts Drama Festival Prize (late 1940s)
  2. El Colegio de México Fellowship (late 1940s)
  3. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1963)

Mariano Azuela

Born: 01 JAN 1873 – Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico

Died: 01 MAR 1952 – Mexico City

Type: Prose writer, dramatist, critic

Achievements:

  1. Co-founder of the Colegio Nacional (1943)
  2. Premio de Letras (1940)

Nellie Campobello

Born: 11 NOV 1913 – Villa Ocampo, Durango, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, poet

Achievements:

Rosario Castellanos

Born: 25 MAY 1925 – Mexico City

Died: 07 AUG 1974

Type: Poet, dramatist, prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Director of Chiapas cultural programmes (1951-1953)
  2. Director El Teatro Guiñol for the National Indigenist Institute (San Cristóbal, Chiapas 1956-1959)
  3. Mexican Critics Award (1957)
  4. Chiapas Prize (1958)
  5. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1961)
  6. Woman of the Year (Mexico, 1967)

Salvador Elizondo

Born: 19 DEC 1932 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Member of the Mexican Academy of the Language (since 1976)
  2. Member of the Colegio Nacional (since 1981)
  3. Villaurrutia Prize (1965)

Laura Esquivel

Born: ?? ??? 1950 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Novelist

Achievements:

  1. Woman of the Year (Mexico, 1992)
  2. American Booksellers Book of the Year (1994 – the first time it was ever awarded to a non-US citizen)

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

Born: 15 NOV 1776 – Mexico City

Died: 27 JUN 1827 – Mexico City

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Founded El Pensador Mexicano (1912) and adopted that pseudonym when writing for the press

Carlos Fuentes

Born: 11 NOV 1928 – Panama City, Panama

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Mexican prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Member of El Colegio Nacional (since 1974)
  2. Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (since 1986)
  3. Mexican Writers’ Center Fellowship (1956)
  4. Biblioteca Breve Prize (1967)
  5. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1975)
  6. Rómulos Gallegos Prize (Venezuela, 1977)
  7. Alfonso Reyes Prize (1979)
  8. National Award for Literature (Mexico, 1984)
  9. Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1987)
  10. Rubén Darío Prize (1988)
  11. Instituto Italo-Latino-Americano Prize (1988)
  12. New York City National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1988)
  13. Order of Cultural Independence (Nicaragua, 1988)

Juan García Ponce

Born: 22 SEP 1932 – Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Editor of numerous journals including Universidad de México (1958-1966)
  2. Founder of Diagonales (1985)
  3. Literary Prize of Mexico City (1956)
  4. Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1972)
  5. National Prize for Literature (1989)
  6. Great Cross of Honor (Austria, 1987)

Elena Garro

Born: 15 DEC 1920 – Puebla, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Xavier Villarrutia Prize (1964)

Margo Glantz

Born: 26 JAN 26, 1930 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer, critic, literary translator

Achievements:

  1. Premio Villaurrutia (1984)

José Gorostiza

Born: 10 NOV 1901 – Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Died: 16 MAR 1979 – Mexico City

Type: Poet, critic

Achievements:

  1. National Literary Prize (1968)

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

Born: 22 DEC 1859 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? 1895

Type: Poet, journalist

Achievements:

Martín Luis Guzmán

Born: 06 OCT 1887 – Chihuahua, Mexico

Died: 22 DEC 1976 – Mexico City

Type: Novelist, essayist, journalist

Achievements:

  1. Manuel Avila Camacho Prize (1958)
  2. National Prize for Literature (1958)





Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Born: 22 JAN 1928 – Guanajuato, Mexico

Died: 27 NOV 1983 – Spain, in a plane crash with three other authors (one Peruvian, two Spanish)

Type: Prose writer, dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Casa de las Américas (1963, 1964)

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Juana Ramirez de Asbaje [or Asuaje])

Born: 12 NOV 1651 – San Miguel de Nepantla, New Spain (now Mexico)

Died: 17 APR 1695

Type: Writer, woman of ideas

Achievements:

Ramón López Velarde

Born: 15 JUN 1888 – Jeréz (formerly Ciudad Garcia), Zacatecas, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? 1921 – Mexico City

Type: Poet, essayist

Achievements:

José Emilio Pacheco

Born: 30 JUN 1939 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Poet, prose writer, translator

Achievements:

  1. Enrique Lihn Prize (1966)
  2. Magda Donato Prize (1968)
  3. National Poetry Prize (1969)
  4. Guggenheim Fellowship (1970)
  5. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1973)
  6. Elected to Colegio Nacional (1986)

Fernando del Paso

Born: 19 APR 1935 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Guggenheim Fellowship (1970)
  2. Xavier Villarrutia Prize (1966)
  3. Prix du Meilleur Roman Etranger (France, 1975)
  4. Rómulo Gallegos Prize (Venezuela, 1977)

Octavio Paz

Born: 31 MAR 1914 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Poet, prose writer, literary translator

Achievements:

  1. Guggenheim Fellowship (1944)
  2. International Grand Prize for Poetry (Belgium, 1963)
  3. City of Jerusalem Prize (1977)
  4. Grande Aigle d’Or (Nice, 1979)
  5. Neustadt International Prize (1982)
  6. Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1982)
  7. Federation of German Book Trade Peace Prize (1984)
  8. Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio (1986)
  9. Nobel Prize for Literature (1990)

Sergio Pitol

Born: 18 MAR 1933 – Puebla, Mexico

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Head of Cultural Affaifs in the Ministry of Foreign Relations (1981)
  2. Head of International Affairs in the National Institute of Fine Arts (1982)
  3. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1982)
  4. Herralde Prize for the Novel (Barcelona, 1984)
  5. Grand Prize of the European Cultural Association (Poland, 1987)

Elena Poniatowska

Born: 19 MAY 1933 – Paris, France

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Mexican prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Co-founded Editorial Siglo XXI, Cinteca Nacional (????)
  2. Centro de Escritores Fellowship (1957)
  3. Mazatlán Prize (1970)
  4. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1970 – refused)
  5. Revista Siempri Prize (1973)
  6. National Journalism Prize (1979)

Alfonso Reyes

Born: 17 MAY 1889 – Monterrey, Mexico

Died: 27 DEC 1959

Type: Prose writer, scholar, poet, literary translator

Achievements:

  1. Appointed Director Colegio de Mexico (c.1939)
  2. Helped establish Colegio Nacional (1945)
  3. Elected Director of the Mexican Academy of the Language (1957)
  4. National Prize for Literature (1945)

Juan Rulfo

Born: 16 MAY 1918 – Apulco, Zacatecas, Mexico

Died: 07 JAN 1986 – Mexico City

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Co-founder of the literary review Pan (1944)
  2. Elected member of the Mexican Academy of Letters (1980)
  3. National Literature Prize (1970)
  4. Príncipe de Asturias Prize (Spain, 1983)

Gustavo Sainz

Born: 13 JUL 1940 – Mexico City

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Novelist

Achievements:

  1. Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1974)
  2. Guggenheim Fellowship (1976)
  3. Tinker Fellowship (1980)

José Juan Tablada

Born: 03 APR 1871 – Mexico City

Died: 02 AUG 1945 – New York City

Type: Prose writer, poet, art critic, literary translator

Achievements:

  1. Editor-in-chief of El Imparcial (1912-1913)
  2. Editor of Mexican Art and Life (New York, ????)

Rodolfo Usigli

Born: 17 NOV 1905 – Mexico City

Died: 08 JUNE 1979 – Mexico City

Type: Dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Rockefeller Scholarship (1935-1936)

José Vasconcelos

Born: 28 FEB 1882 – Oaxaca, Mexico

Died: 30 JUN 1959 – Mexico City

Type: Essayist, educator, politician

Achievements:

  1. Director of the National Library (?)
  2. Director of the Library of Mexico (?)
  3. Founding member of El Colegio de México (?)

Xavier Villaurrutia

Born: 27 MAR 1903 – Mexico City

Died: 25 DEC 1950 – Mexico City

Type: Poet, dramatist, prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Rockefeller Scholarship (1935-1936)
  2. A prestigious literary prize bears his name and was established after his death.

Agustín Yáñez

Born: 04 APR 1904 – Guadalajara, Mexico

Died: 17 JAN 1980 – Mexico City

Type: Prose writer, journalist

Achievements:

  1. His book Al Filo del Agua (1947) became required reading in state schools.




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