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Elena Poniatowska
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska, is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents. Her mother's family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left…
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culture · Mexican journalist and author (b. 1932) · journalist · writer · novelist · poet · short story writer · literary scholar · screenwriter · translator · also Elena Poniatowska, Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, Princess Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor, Poniatowska
Born 19 May 1932 · Q261397
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2023· 1 entry
Awarded Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language (2023).
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2022· 1 entry
WPROST: Meksykańska dziennikarka z królewskiego rodu. Elena Poniatowska – kobieta, która przełamała bariery
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2018· 1 entry
Univision: Elena Poniatowska and the massacre of 1968
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Democracy Now: Mexican Writer Elena Poniatowska on the Missing 43 Students, 1968 Massacre & U.S.-Backed Drug War
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense presented by Complutense University of Madrid (2015).
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2014· 2 entries
The Tico Times: Elena Poniatowska: Mexican student massacre reminiscent of concentration camps
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Chicago Reader: Squaring a debt to Elena Poniatowska
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded FIL Award (2013).
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Awarded Miguel de Cervantes Prize (2013).
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Poniatowska won Spain's Premio Cervantes Literature Award, the most prestigious Spanish-language literary award for an author's lifetime works, becoming the fourth woman to receive such recognition, following María Zambr
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris 8 University (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by University of Puerto Rico (2010).
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Rómulo Gallegos Prize (2007).
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With her book El Tren pasa primero (The Train Passes First)
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Democracy Now: An Hour With Mexican Writers Elena Poniatowska and Paco Ignacio Taibo on the Mexican Elections, the Zapatistas and President Bush
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Pau (2004).
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Awarded Maria Moors Cabot Prizes (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded National Prize for Arts and Sciences (2002).
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded Alfaguara Prize (2001).
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Awarded José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (2001).
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Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2001).
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Poniatowska received the José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature in 2001 as well as the annual prize for best novel by Spanish book publishing house Alfaguara, Alfaguara Novel Prize for her novel La piel del ci
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2000).
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The nations of Colombia and Chile each awarded Poniatowska with their highest writing awards
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1997· 1 entry
Her novella De noche vienes (You Come by Night) was made into a feature film directed by Arturo Ripstein and starring María Rojo and Tito Vasconcelos
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1994).
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The New School (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
“A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids”
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Premio Nacional de Periodismo de México (1979).
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Autonomous University of Sinaloa (1979).
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1978· 1 entry
Poniatowska was the first woman to win Mexico's National Journalism Prize of Mexico for her contributions to the dissemination of Mexican cultural and political expression
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1959· 1 entry
When she interviewed him, and they married in 1968
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1954· 1 entry
And since then has done both journalism and creative writing
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1953· 2 entries
Returned to Mexico, where she learned to type, but she never went to university
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With Excélsior and the next year with the publication Novedades de México, both of which she still occasionally writes for
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1942· 1 entry
So the family left for Mexico when she was ten years old
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-05-19.
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