Antonio Alatorre

Antonio Alatorre Chávez ( born July 25, 1922 in Autlán de la Grana, Jalisco, Mexico, † October 21, 2010 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, scholar and translator.

Alatorre was known for his works by the Spanish literature; his famous book, Los años de la lengua española 1001 ( The 1001 years of the Spanish language ) that attempts by a pleasant, simple and quite short way to explain the history of the Spanish language, was published in 1979.

Life

Antonio Alatorre was born in 1922 in Autlán de la Grana, Jalisco. Even in his youth he worked intensively with languages ​​and learned Latin, Greek, French and English. After graduation he studied law, this study broke off, however, and studied literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and philology at the Colegio de México ( Colmex ). From 1943 he taught languages. From 1953 to 1972 he was director of the Colegio de México and was editor of the Nueva Revista de Filología Hispanica. In 1998 he won the Mexican National Prize for Literature and Linguistics. He was a member of the Colegio Nacional and honorary member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, wrote and translated numerous books. He died in 2010 in Mexico City.

Publications

• El apogeo del castellano, Fondo de Cultura Económica. Mexico.
• Enigma ofrecidos a la casa del placer de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. ( edición comentada ), El Colegio de México.
• Ensayos sobre crítica literaria. Centro Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes ( CNCA ).
• Juana de Amado Nervo de Asbaje. ( Introducción y edición ), Centro Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes ( CNCA ).
• Los años de la lengua española 1001. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico 2002.
• El sueño en la erótico poesía española de los siglos de oro. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico 2003.
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Obras completas, ( Introducción, edición y notas ), Mexico, 2009.