La casa nueva a elena poniatowska biography
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A Conversation with Elena Poniatowska and Michael K. Schuessler
Admission: FREE for AS Members; $25.00 for non-members.
The celebrated Mexican novelist and journalist Elena Poniatowska and author Michael K. Schuessler will engage in a conversation about literature and culture in Mexico. The event will highlight Poniatowska’s historical novel Leonora, inspired by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, and Schuessler’s Elena Poniatowska: An Intimate Biography. This event is part of Celebrate México Now, a citywide festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture produced by CN Management. A limited number of tickets are available for non-members. This program will be held in English. A members-only book signing will follow in collaboration with La Casa Azul Bookstore.
With the additional collaboration of Columbia University; the Hispanic New York Project; Hunter College, CUNY; InterAmericas®; The International Literary Quarterly; McNally Jackson Books; and
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ELENA PONIATOWSKA
She began her writing career as a journalist. Her first job involved writing society news for the daily newspaper Excelsior. Soon, she moved on to interviewing cultural and political figures, such as muralist Diego Rivera. Most of these writings are collected in Palabras cruzadas, (1961). Through journalism and tillgång to her interviewees, Poniatowska began to understand the Mexican samhälle, its politics and its institutions.
She is best known for her gripping account of a massaker that took place in 1968 on Mexico City’s Plaza dem Tres Culturas, also known as Tlatelolco.
In her book La noche de Tlatelolco, published in 1971, she denounced the cruel repression with which the army and the police crushed a lärling political demonstration. Nobody knows exactly how many people died. Ten days before Mexico was to host the Olympic Games, the government of President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz clamped down on students who were demanding the eradication of Article
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Poniatowska, Elena 1932-
PERSONAL:
Born May 19, 1932, in Paris, France; emigrated to Mexico 1942; naturalized Mexican citizen, 1969; daughter of John E. and Paula Poniatowska; married Guillermo Haro (an astronomer); children: Emmanuel, Felipe, Paula. Education: Educated in Mexico and the United States, including Manhattanville College. Religion: Roman Catholic.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Cerrada del Pedregal 79, Coyoacan, ZP 21, Mexico City, Mexico. Office—Novedades, Balderras 87, Mexico City 1, Mexico.
CAREER:
Excelsior, writer, 1954-55; Novedades, Mexico City, Mexico, staff member, beginning 1955. Instructor at Injuve; founder of Editorial Siglo XXI (a publishing house), Cineteca Nacional (a national film library), and Taller Literario. Visiting professor at universities, including Yale, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of California; lecturer and speaker in the United States, Mexico, and Europe.
MEMBER:
International PEN.
AWARDS, HONORS:
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