Authors - Publicaciones | Conaculta
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Authors - Publicaciones | Conaculta
Authors Roger Bartra A Mexican sociologist and anthropologist, recognised as one of most important contemporary social scientists of his country, Roger Bartra is well known for his work on Mexican identity in The Cage of Melancholy. Identity and Metamorphosis in the Mexican Character, his social theory in The Imaginary Networks of Political Power and, more recently, his anthropo-clinical theory of the exocerebrum, that argues that the brain is partly constructed by its “cultural prostheses”, the external socio-cultural elements that complete it. Trained as an anthropologist in Mexico, Bartra earned his doctorate in sociology at La Sorbonne and is Emeritus Research Fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he has worked since 1971. In 1985 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London. 19 20 Carmen Boullosa She is the author of several books of poetry (the most recent being La patria insomne and Corro a mirarme en ti) and eighteen novels, as well as a number of essay collections and plays (seven of them have been staged). She has read at book fairs and festivals in dozens of countries and has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Irvine, Brown, UCLA, Yale, the Library of Congress and UNAM, among other institutions. There are scores of books and over seventy doctoral thesis that deal with her work and her novella La otra mano de Lepanto was considered in an international survey of authorities as one of the best works of literature written in Spanish in the past 25 years. She was Visiting Professor at NYU, Columbia University, Georgetown, Blaise Pascal and SDSU; Distinguished Lecturer at City College, CUNY (2004-2010); and Alfonso Reyes Chair at La Sorbonne. She served as Chief Advisor for a major museum exhibition (Nueva York 16131945), and engaged in the writing and production a feature film based on her novel, Las paredes hablan. An exhibit of her artwork was held at Museo Carillo Gil (Despechadas, me dejaste con hormigas en el alma) She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Xavier Villaurrutia Literature Award. Lydia Cacho Mexican journalist, writer and Human Rights defender. Her world reputation as an expert on freedom of expression, peace education, gender and social violence, as well as her award-winning books on organised crime, child pornography and human trafficking, have brought her to Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States as a professional speaker. She has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, NYU, Syracuse University, University of Michigan, Stanford University, and UCLA among others. She is a Board Member of Article 19, the UK-based Freedom of Expression NGO. Her books have been translated into 18 languages. She lives under constant death threats from the crime lords she has exposed. 21 22 Francisco Hinojosa He studied Spanish Language and Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Before dedicating himself to writing on a full-time basis, he edited various periodical publications such as La Gaceta (Fondo de Cultura Económica). He has published more than 50 books of poetry, short stories, travel chronicles, journalism, essays, children’s books, textbooks, and anthologies. Some of his titles include: Robinson perseguido, La peor señora del mundo, La Fórmula del Dr. Funes, Una semana en Lugano, Ana, ¿verdad?, Informe negro, Un tipo de cuidado, Migraña en racimos, Mexican Chicago, La nota negra, Cuéntame, Poesía eras tú, El tiempo apremia and Emma. His works have been translated into English, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian and Slovenian. He has also authored and edited textbooks for elementary and secondary education. He has obtained various awards and recognitions, such as the San Luis Potosí National Short Story Award, as well as multiple grants from Mexico’s National System of Creative Artists (SNCA). Enrique Krauze A historian, essayist, and editor, he earned a degree in industrial engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a doctorate in history at Colegio de Mexico. He worked for over two decades with Octavio Paz at Vuelta magazine, where he was editor-in-chief and subdirector. In 1992 he founded the publishing house Clío, which he is director of, and he is also director of prominent cultural magazine Letras Libres, which he founded in 1999, distributed in several Spanish-speaking countries. His many awards include the Magda Donato Award for his book Caudillos culturales de la Revolución mexicana, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Comillas Biography Award given by Tusquets Editores, the Capitán Alonso de León Medal for Historical Merit, and the Alfonso X the Wise Grand Cross of Civil Order (awarded by the Spanish government). He is the author of landmark books in national historiography such as Biography of Power, Daniel Cosío Villegas: Una biografía intelectual, La presidencia imperial and La presencia del pasado, among many others, and is author of various TV series on historical subjects. He is member of the Mexican Academy of History and, since 2005, member of El Colegio Nacional. 23 24 Tedi López Mills She studied philosophy at the Mexican National University and literature at La Sorbonne. She has published eleven poetry books: Cinco estaciones, Un lugar ajeno, Segunda persona (Efraín Huerta National Poetry Award), Glosas, Horas, Luz por aire y agua, Un jardín, cinco noches (y otros poemas), Contracorriente (José Fuentes Mares Literature Award), Parafrasear, Death on Rua Augusta (Xavier Villaurrutia Award), and most recently, Amigo del perro cojo. She has also published two non-fiction books, one on Stéphane Mallarmé, La noche en blanco de Mallarmé, and a collection of personal-narrative essays, Libro de las explicaciones. She has translated the work of many American, Canadian, English and French poets into Spanish. She lives in Mexico City. Valeria Luiselli Author of the internationally acclaimed novel Faces in the Crowd and the book of essays Sidewalks, both translated to multiple languages and published in the UK by Granta. Her most recent novel is The Story of My Teeth (Granta 2015). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney’s, among others. She has written a ballet libretto for the New York City Ballet in Lincoln Center and in 2014 she was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” award for her book Faces in the Crowd. She has lived in Costa Rica, Korea, South Africa, India, Spain and the United States. 25 26 Elena Poniatowska She began her career in journalism in 1954 in the newspaper Excélsior, and soon after in Novedades. Early on she began to publish interviews with personalities in the Mexican and international cultural scene such as Alfonso Reyes, Luis Buñuel, Diego Rivera, Juan Rulfo, André Malraux and Rosario Castellanos, among others. She is author of over forty books covering almost all genres: interviews, short stories, theatre plays, narrative journalism, novels, essays and biographies. Her book La noche de Tlatelolco, a polyphonic testimony of one of the most tragic episodes in Mexico’s contemporary history, was acclaimed by readers and critics alike. Her many awards include the Mazatlán Literature Award, the Alfaguara Novel Award, the National Arts and Sciences Award, the Rómulo Gallegos Award, and the Cervantes Award. Her extensive list of publications include Hasta no verte, Jesús mío, Fuerte es el silencio, Tinísima, La piel del cielo, El tren pasa primero, Octavio Paz: Las palabras del árbol and Leonora. Her political commitment and active participation in the public life of Mexico have been constant throughout her career. Pedro Serrano Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetry and Translation at UNAM, he has also taught at the Universidad de Barcelona and Georgetown University. He has published several books of poems. Along with Carlos López Beltrán he edited and translated La generación del cordero (The Lamb Generation) a bilingual anthology of Contemporary British Poetry, and an anthology of the Irish poet Matthew Sweeney. He translated Shakespeare’s King John and Edward Hirsch’s Lay Back the Darkness into Spanish, and his poems have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Nimrod International Journal and Bomb, among others. He has been also included in the anthologies Reversible Monuments, Connecting Lines, Mexican Poetry Today 20/20 Voices, Being Human. More Real Poems for Unreal Times, and Literature. An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing, edited by X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. He is editor of Periódico de Poesía, an online poetry journal (www.periodicodepoesia.unam.mx). 27 28 Juan Villoro He has been Professor at the UNAM, and Visiting Professor at Yale, Princeton and Pomeu Fabra University. He has translated works by Truman Capote, Graham Green, Goethe, Lichtenberg, and Rezzori. He received the José Donoso Ibero-American Award given in Chile, for life achievement; the Premio ACE in Argentina, for best theatre play of the year; Antonin Artaud Award for the best Mexican book of the year; the José María Arguedas Award in Cuba for best Latin American novel of the last two years; the Herralde Award for best book of the year, and the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán International Award, among others. He has authored novels, short story collections, children’s books, theatre plays, books of essays and narrative journalism. His works include the novel Los culpables, the book of literary essays De eso se trata and his theatre monologue Conferencia sobre la lluvia, among others. Jorge Volpi Author of the novels La paz de los sepulcros, El temperamento melancólico and his Trilogy of the Twentieth Century: En busca de Klingsor, El fin de la locura and No será la tierra. He has also written the novellas collected in Días de ira, Sanar tu piel amarga, El jardín devastado and Oscuro bosque oscuro. His books of essays include La imaginación y el poder, La Guerra y las palabras, Mentiras contagiosas, El insomnio de Bolívar and Leer la mente. He has taught at universities in Mexico, Chile, Spain, USA and France, and has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the National System of Creators of Mexico. He was director of TV Channel 22 and is a regular contributor to Reforma and El País newspapers. His books have been translated into 25 languages. In 2012 he received the Planeta-Casa de América Award for his novel Tejedora de sombras. His novel Memorial del Engaño was published in 2014 in Latin America and Spain, and is forthcoming in Brazil, Portugal, Italy and France. He is currently General Director of Festival Internacional Cervantino. 29