Mexico

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.