Margo Glantz

Margo Glantz ( born January 28, 1930 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican writer, essayist and scientist.

Life

Margo Glantz was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia; her father, Jacobo Glantz was himself a writer, her mother's name was Elizabeth ( Lucia) Shapiro and died in 1997 at the age of 94 years.

From 1947 to 1953 studied Margo Glantz literature and theater studies and art history at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM), where she had many excellent teachers, including such eminent writers and philosophers such as Alfonso Reyes, Julio Torri, Agustín Yáñez, Samuel Ramos and Leopoldo Zea. 1953 she went with her ​​then-husband, Francisco López Cámara, for five years in Paris, where they at the Sorbonne with a thesis on El exotismo francés en México ( de 1847 a 1867) earned a doctorate in Spanish literature. Back in Mexico, she taught at various secondary educational institutions as well as at the UNAM aesthetics, theater history, history of Mexican literature and comparative literature. 1959 was born their first daughter Alina. In newspapers and magazines, she published numerous articles, reviews and theater reviews.

In 1964 she published her first book, Viajes en México, Crónicas extranjeras, which was based on materials that they had collected for her dissertation in Paris. In 1966 she was appointed Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the Facultad de Letras y Filosofía UNAM. In the same year they founded the journal Punto de Partida, which she headed until 1969. In the same period she was also the Instituto Cultural Mexicano Israeli ( = Mexican -Israeli Cultural Institute ). In 1970, she married her second husband Luis Mario Schneider, with whom she has a daughter born in 1971, Renata. This year, she was appointed as Full Professor at the Montclair State College in New Jersey and published a groundbreaking literary historical work entitled Onda y escritura en México, & Youth de 20 a 33, after the eponymous literary movement of the young women of letters and writers in Mexico was named. After separating from her second husband, Margo Glantz 1974 returned back to Mexico, where she received her teaching at UNAM again. Her first literary work, Las mil y una calorías, novela Dietética (1001 calories a dietary novel) was published in 1978, followed by a number of other essays and novels (see bibliography). Died in 1982, her father, whom she had previously set with the autobiographical work Las genealogías a year is a literary testimony. In 1983 she became head of the literature department of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes ( INBA ), a year later, she received the major literary prize Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for her work Síndrome de Naufragios. From 1986 to 1988 she was the cultural attaché at the Mexican Embassy in London. She then returned to Mexico, where she received her teaching at UNAM again; numerous visiting professorships at various universities in the U.S. followed. In 1994 she was appointed Profesora Emérita the UNAM and the Council for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Princeton, USA. Since 1995 she has been a full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.

Prizes and awards

  • Premio Magda Donato, 1982
  • Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, 1984
  • Premio Universidad Nacional, 1991
  • Full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 1995
  • Rockefeller Fellowship, 1996
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1998
  • Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2003
  • Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes, 2004
  • Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM ), 2005
  • Juan Rulfo Prize 2010

Work

Novels and autobiographical

  • Las mil y una calorías, México: Premiá, 1978.
  • Las genealogías, México, Martín Casillas, 1981 ( Premio Magda Donato 1982); Reprints: México, Alfaguara, 1997 and Valencia (Spain ), Pre- Textos, 2006 English: The Family Tree: An Illustrated Novel, . translated by Susan Bassnett. London: Serpent's Tail, 1991.
  • Apariciones, México, Alfaguara, 1996.
  • Zona de derrumbe, Beatriz Viterbo, 2001.
  • El rastro, Barcelona, ​​Anagrama, 2002. Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2003.
  • Historia de una mujer que camino por la vida con zapatos de diseñador, Barcelona, ​​Anagrama. , 2005.

Essays and literary criticism

  • Viajes en México. Crónicas extranjeras, México, Secretaría de Obras Públicas, 1964.
  • Tennessee Williams y el teatro norteamericano, México, UNAM, 1964.
  • La aventura del Conde de Rousset Boulbon, México, SepSetenta, 1972.
  • Doscientas ballenas azules, México, La Máquina de Escribir, 1979.
  • No pronunciarás, México, Premia, 1980.
  • Repeticiones. Ensayos sobre literatura mexicana, México, Universidad Veracruzana (UV ), 1980.
  • Intervención y pretexto. Ensayos de literatura Comparada e iberoamericana, México, UNAM, 1981.
  • El día de tu boda, México, Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP ) / Martín Casillas, 1982.
  • La lengua de la mano, México, Premia, 1983.
  • De la amorosa inclinación de enredarse s cabellos, México, Océano, 1984.
  • Erosions, México, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México ( UAEM ), 1984.
  • Síndrome de Naufragios, México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1984 ( Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 1984).
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Notas y documentos, México, Conaculta, 1993.
  • Esguince de cintura ( ensayos sobre del siglo XX narrativa mexicana ), México, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1994.
  • La Malinche, sus padres y sus hijos, México, UNAM, 1994; Reprint: México, Taurus, 2001.
  • Obra selecta de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ( Selección y Prólogo de Margo Glantz y Cronologia y bibliografía de María Dolores Bravo Arriaga ), Caracas, Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1994.
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, ¿ o hagiografía Autobiografia? , México, Grijalbo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma, 1995.
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Saberes y Placeres, Toluca, Instituto de Cultura Mexiquense, 1996.
  • Sor Juana: La comparación y la hipérbole, Mexico, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, 2000.
  • Borrones y borradores. Ensayos sobre literatura colonial, UNAM / El Equilibrista, México, 1992; New edition under the title La desnudez como naufragio: borrones y borradores, Madrid Iberoamericana, 2004.
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