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- Ramón López VelardeRamón López VelardeRamón López Velarde was aMexican poet. His work is generally considered to be postmodern, but is unique for its subject matter. He achieved great fame in his native land, to the point of being considered Mexico's national poet....
, no prizes known - Octavio PazOctavio PazOctavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...
Nobel Prize; Cervantes Prize; Neustadt Prize; National Prize; Alfonso Reyes Prize; Jerusalem Prize; Menendez y Pelayo Prize; Doctor Honoris Causa (Harvard); Xavier Villaurrutia Award - Maruxa VilaltaMaruxa VilaltaMaruxa Vilalta is a Mexican playwright and a theatre director.Her plays have been translated, published and produced in numerous countries. She has won the critic’s prize for the best play of the year ten times....
, National Prize 2010 - Tomás SegoviaTomás SegoviaTomás Segovia was a Mexican author and poet of Spanish origin. He was born in Valencia, Spain, and studied in France and Morocco. He went into exile to Mexico, where he taught at the Colegio de México and other universities...
Juan Rulfo Prize; Octavio Paz Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Homero AridjisHomero AridjisHomero Aridjis is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist and diplomat known for his independence.-Family and Early Life:...
Neustadt Prize Candidate; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - José Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio Pacheco Berny is a Mexican essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century....
Octavio Paz Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Garcia Lorca Prize; Alfonso Reyes Prize; - Ali ChumaceroAli ChumaceroAlí Chumacero Lora was a Mexican poet.-Career:Chumacero was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit. He was the joint editor of Tierra Nueva magazine from 1940-42. He edited Letras de México and El Hijo Pródigo....
National Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Alfonso Reyes Prize; - Jaime SabinesJaime SabinesJaime Sabines Gutiérrez 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...
National Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Fernando del PasoFernando del PasoFernando del Paso Morante is a Mexican novelist, essayist and poet.Del Paso was born in Mexico City and took two years in economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México...
Romulo Gallegos Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Carlos FuentesCarlos FuentesCarlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...
Cervantes Prize; Prince of Asturias Award; Romulo Gallegos Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Alfonso Reyes Prize; Neustadt Prize Candidate; Menendez y Pelayo Prize - Sergio PitolSergio PitolSergio Pitol Demeneghi is a prominent Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005 he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world....
Cervantes Prize; National Prize; Herralde Prize; Juan Rulfo Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship; Xavier Villaurrutia Award - Juan RulfoJuan RulfoJuan Rulfo was a Mexican author and photographer. One of Latin America's most esteemed authors, Rulfo's reputation rests on two slim books, the novel Pedro Páramo , and El Llano en llamas...
National Prize; Prince of Asturias Award; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Carlos MonsiváisCarlos MonsiváisCarlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. of French decent He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers and was considered to be an opinion leader within the country's progressive sectors. His generation of writers includes Elena...
Juan Rulfo Prize; National Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award - Juan José ArreolaJuan José ArreolaJuan José Arreola Zúñiga was a Mexican writer and academic. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the twentieth century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he uses elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and...
Juan Rulfo Prize; National Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Alfonso Reyes Prize - Juan García PonceJuan García PonceJuan García Ponce was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator and critic of Mexican art.-Life and works:...
Juan Rulfo Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship - Margo GlantzMargo GlantzMargo Glantz is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic.- Biography :Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s. Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth Shapiro in Odessa, where they married...
National Prize; Sor Juana Inez Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Elena PoniatowskaElena PoniatowskaElena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe...
National Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Romulo Gallegos Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Elena GarroElena GarroElena Garro was a Mexican writer. She was once married to writer Octavio Paz.-Biography:Elena Garro was born to a Spanish father and a Mexican mother on December 11, 1916 in Puebla, Mexico. She spent her childhood in Mexico City but moved to Iguala, Guerrero, during the Cristero War...
Sor Juana Inez Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Vicente Riva PalacioVicente Riva PalacioVicente Florencio Carlos Riva Palacio Guerrero was a Mexican politician and intellectual....
- Silvia Molina Sor Juana Inez Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award
- Vicente LeñeroVicente LeñeroVicente Leñero Otero is a Mexican novelist, journalist, and playwright. He has written numerous books, stories, and plays, including a theatrical adaptation of Oscar Lewis's The Children of Sanchez. He was awarded the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 2001, and the following year he received the...
National Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship - Alberto Ruy SánchezAlberto Ruy SánchezAlberto Ruy Sánchez Lacy is a Mexican writer and editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Since 1988 he has been the chief editor and founding publisher of Latin America’s leading arts magazine: Artes de Mexico...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Jorge López Páez Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship
- Mario BellatinMario Bellatin-Biography:Mario Bellatin grew up in Peru as the son of Peruvian parents. He spent two years studying theology at the seminary Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo and graduated from the University of Lima. In 1987, Bellatin moved to Cuba, where he studied screenplay writing at the International Film School...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship - Juan VilloroJuan VilloroJuan Villoro is a Mexican writer and journalist. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among the readers grew since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel El testigo.-Biography:Juan Villoro received his bachelor's degree...
Herralde Prize; Xavier Villaurrutia Award - Eduardo Lizalde Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship
- Carmen BoullosaCarmen BoullosaCarmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work is eclectic and difficult to categorize, but it generally focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship - Jaime Torres BodetJaime Torres BodetJaime Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico....
National Prize; - Carlos Pellicer Cámara National Prize
- Andrés HenestrosaAndrés HenestrosaAndrés Henestrosa Morales was a Mexican writer and politician. In addition to his prose and poetry, Henestrosa was elected to the federal legislature, serving three terms in the Chamber of Deputies, and as a senator for the state of Oaxaca from 1982 to 1988...
Alfonso Reyes Prize; - Rosario CastellanosRosario CastellanosRosario Castellanos was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 , she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award - Carlos MontemayorCarlos MontemayorCarlos Montemayor was a Mexican novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, tenor, political analyst, and promoter of contemporary literature written in indigenous languages. He was a Member of the Mexican Academy of the Language.Montemayor died of stomach cancer on February 28, 2010...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
- Gabriel ZaidGabriel ZaidGabriel Zaid is a Mexican writer, poet and intellectual.He was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, in 1934. He studied Engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey....
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - David HuertaDavid HuertaDavid Huerta, born in Mexico City in 1949, is a Mexican poet and the son of well known poet Efraín Huerta.- Biography :As the son of the renowned Mexican poet Efraín Huerta, David was immersed since childhood in Mexico's literary environment. He studied Philosophy, and English and Spanish...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Myriam MosconaMyriam MosconaMyriam Moscona is a Mexican journalist, translator and poet in Ladino and Spanish languages who comes from a Bulgarian Sephardi Jewish family. She teaches at Miami University...
Guggenheim Fellowship; - Ángeles MastrettaÁngeles MastrettaÁngeles Mastretta is a Mexican author and journalist. She is well known for creating inspirational female characters and fictional pieces that reflect the social and political realities of Mexico in her life.-Background:...
Romulo Gallegos Prize; - Martín Luis GuzmánMartín Luis GuzmánMartín Luis Guzmán Franco was a Mexican novelist and journalist.-Life:Guzmán was born in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Along with Mariano Azuela, he is considered a pioneer of the revolutionary novel, a genre inspired by the experiences of the Mexican Revolution of 1910...
National Prize; - Ikaica Ruben Čampos Tadešhko Xavier Villaurrutia nominee
- Mariano AzuelaMariano AzuelaMariano Azuela González was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910...
National Prize; - Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes National Prize;
- Angelina Muñiz-HubermanAngelina Muñiz-Huberman-External links:...
Sor Juana Inez Prize; - Cristina Rivera GarzaCristina Rivera GarzaCristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1964. She is the only author to have won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice. First in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da...
Sor Juana Inez Prize; - Paloma Villegas Sor Juana Inez Prize;
- Claudia Amengual Sor Juana Inez Prize;
- Araceli ArdónAraceli ArdónAraceli Ardon is a Mexican writer from Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro.-Biography:Araceli Ardon was born in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, in 1958, during a local holiday: on January 21, when the birthday of don Ignacio Allende is celebrated. He was a hero of the Independence, in whose honor...
Rosario Castellanos Prize; - Josefina VicensJosefina VicensJosefina Vicens was a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and journalist. Although she only published two novels, she is regarded as a pillar of modern Mexican literature....
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - José RevueltasJosé RevueltasJosé Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican writer, essayist, and political activist. He was part of an important artistic family that included his siblings Silvestre , Fermín and Rosaura .-Life:He was often imprisoned for his political activism, almost from the time he was a boy...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Esther Seligson Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Julieta CamposJulieta CamposJulieta Campos was a Cuban-Mexican writer.Born in Havana, she moved to Mexico in the 1950s after marrying diplomat Enrique González Pedrero...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Gustavo SainzGustavo SainzGustavo Sainz is a Spanish language author from Mexico.Born in Mexico City, the son of journalist José Luis Sainz, Gustavo Sainz learned how to read at the age of three from his paternal grandmother, and started publishing his work in the city newspapers at the age of ten...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Inés Arredondo Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Jesús GardeaJesús GardeaJesús Gardea Rocha was a Mexican writer of fiction and short fiction.-Biography:Jesús Gardea Rocha was born on July 2, 1939, in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Vicente Gardea V. and Francisca Rocha. He studied at the Elementary School No. 306 in Delicias, and later went to study his secondary...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - María Luisa PugaMaria Luisa PugaMaria Luisa Puga was a Mexican writer. Her 1983 novel Pánico o peligro won the Xavier Villaurrutia Award.-Biography:...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Sergio GalindoSergio GalindoSergio Galindo was a Mexican novelist and short-story writer. He was born in Jalapa in the state of Veracruz, a region of Mexico that figures prominently in much of his writing. His most widely-acclaimed novels are El Bordo and Otilia Rauda , the latter filmed as La Mujer del Pueblo in 2001...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Daniel SadaDaniel SadaDaniel Sada was a Mexican poet journalist and author whose work has being hailed as one of the most important contributions to the Spanish language. He has organised many poetry workshops in Mexico City and several other cities...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Ignacio PadillaIgnacio PadillaIgnacio Padilla is a noted Mexican novelist and short story writer whose works have been translated into several languages. Padilla helped found the "Crack Movement" along with fellow Mexican writers Eloy Urroz, Jorge Volpi, and Pedro Angel Palou as a means for Mexican authors to find their own...
Guggenheim Fellowship; - Jorge VolpiJorge VolpiJorge Luis Volpi Escalante is a Mexican author best known for his 1999 novel En busca de Klingsor. Volpi was born in Mexico City. He studied law and literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and received a PhD in Spanish philology at the University of Salamanca in Spain...
Guggenheim Fellowship; - Malva FloresMalva FloresMalva Flores is a contemporary Mexican poet. She has also published short stories and essays.In 1991, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven “Elías Nandino” for her book of poems Pasión de caza. In 1999, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes, for her book of...
Aguascalientes Prize; - José AgustínJosé AgustínJosé Agustín Ramírez Gómez is a Mexican novelist.-Career:Agustin's first novel, La Tumba was the brief but provocative story of a Mexican upperclass teen, deemed indecent by the public but gathering praise from older writers...
Guggenheim Fellowship; - José Manuel PrietoJose Manuel Prieto- Biography :Jose Manuel Prieto was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. He earned his PhD in History in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has taught at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, Mexico City, from 1994 to 2004. In 2004-2005 he was the Margaret and Herman Sokol Fellow at...
Guggenheim Fellowship; - Alejandro RossiAlejandro RossiAlejandro Rossi was a Mexican writer....
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Salvador ElizondoSalvador ElizondoSalvador Elizondo Alcalde 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...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Ramón XirauRamón XirauRamon Xirau Subias is a Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic. In 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he emigrated to Mexico where he obtained Mexican citizenship in 1955...
Alfonso Reyes Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship; - José Luis Martínez Alfonso Reyes Prize; Menendez y Pelayo Prize;
- Alfonso ReyesAlfonso ReyesAlfonso Reyes Ochoa was a Mexican writer, philosopher and diplomat.-Early life:Alfonso Reyes parents were Bernardo Reyes and Aurelia Ochoa...
National Prize; - Hugo Hiriart Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Francisco Cervantes Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Héctor Manjarrez Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Daniel Leyva Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Gerardo Deniz Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Ignacio SolaresIgnacio SolaresIgnacio Solares is a prominent Mexican novelist, editor and playwright, whose novel La invasion was a bestseller in Mexico and Spain...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Coral BrachoCoral BrachoCoral Bracho is a Mexican poet, translator, and doctor of Literature.Bracho is winner of the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize in 1981 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Marco Antonio Montes de Oca Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Rubén Bonifaz NuñoRubén Bonifaz NuñoRubén Bonifaz Nuño is a Mexican poet and classical scholar.Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1934 to 1947. In 1960, he began lecturing in Latin at the UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and received a doctorate in Classics in...
Alfonso Reyes Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship; - Juan Miguel Lope Blanch National Prize;
- Salvador Novo López National Prize;
- Ángel María Garibay National Prize;
- Joaquín Diez Canedo Alfonso Reyes Prize;
- Ernesto Mejía Sánchez Alfonso Reyes Prize;
- Ernesto Mejía Sánchez Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Federico Arana Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Héctor Azar Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Arturo Azuela Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Manuel EcheverríaManuel EcheverríaManuel "Ciclón" Echeverría, born on August 14, 1913 in Navojoa, Sonora, and died on October 14, 1981 in La Paz, Baja California Sur, was a Mexican baseball player....
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Tita Valencia Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Enrique González RojoEnrique González Rojo, Jr.Enrique González Rojo in fact Enrique González Arthur , is a Mexican writer, philosopher and teacher.- Biography :...
Xavier Villaurrutia Award; - Jaime Reyes Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Amparo Dávila Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Luis Mario Schneider Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Isabel Fraire Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Ulalume González de León Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Carlos Eduardo Turón Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Margarita Villaseñor Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Jaime del Palacio Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Eraclio Zepeda Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Carlos Illescas Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Jomi García Ascot Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Carmen Alardín Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Arturo González Cosío Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Federico Patán Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Ernesto de la Peña Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- José Luis Rivas Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Emilio García Riera Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Vicente Quirarte Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Marco Antonio Campos Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Francisco Hernández Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Jaime Labastida Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Jorge Ruiz Dueñas Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Juan Bañuelos Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Hugo Gutiérrez Vega Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Pedro Ángel Palou García Xavier Villaurrutia Award;
- Eduardo Antonio Parra Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Olivier Debroise Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Federico CampbellFederico CampbellFederico Campbell is a writer from northern Mexico. Campbell is known for the short story collection Tijuanenses . In 2000 he won the Colima Prize for Fiction with his novel Transpeninsular. In 1995 he was awarded the J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship...
Guggenheim Fellowship; - Juan José Gurrola Iturriaga Guggenheim Fellowship;
- Celso Aguirre BernalCelso Aguirre BernalCelso Aguirre Bernal was a Mexican writer and historian. He was born in Puerto de Canoas, Sinaloa in 1916 and died in 1997 in Mexicali, where he had lived since the 1950s....
- Martín SolaresMartín SolaresMartín Solares is a Mexican writer, critic and editor who received the Efraín Huerta National Literary Award in 1998 for his short story, El planeta Cloralex...
Efraín Huerta National Literary Award (1998)