Carlos Montemayor

Carlos Montemayor ( born June 13, 1947 in Parral (Chihuahua ), Mexico, † February 28, 2010 in Mexico City; pseudonym: Mon Mortenay ) was a Mexican writer, poet, translator and singer.

Life

Carlos Montemayor grew up in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, in the town of Parral on. After graduation he moved to the capital, Mexico and received at the National Autonomous University of Mexico a legal education, which he supplemented with a study of Latin American literature. At the same time he studied at the Colegio de México with Hebrew, turned to the classical and modern Greek, Latin and French, Portuguese, Italian and English language. From 1974, he worked as a professor of literature at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalcos, active in the capital and since 1985 a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Language.

He died on February 28, 2010 from cancer.

Services

Carlos Montemayor tried to reconcile in his literary work social issues with aesthetic demands. His life's work covers very different areas of interest, which were all very important to him. This includes his literary work, his employment with the ancient classical authors, but also his commitment and the promotion of Mexican indigenous literature of the present. As a journalist he published critical commentaries on contemporary events in major newspapers and magazines of the country. As a socially committed artist, he grappled with the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas state, and was last in the Conciliation Commission between the Government and the Partido Democrático Popular Revolucionario - Ejército Popular Revolucionario ( PDPR EPR ), which strove for the whereabouts of two of disappeared political activists.

Prizes and Awards (selection)

• Xavier Villaurrutia price for Las llaves de Urgell 1971
• Tomás -Valles - Vivar Prize of the State of Chihuahua for the complete works 1985
• Narrative of the State of Colima Price for Guerra en el Paraíso ( engl War in Paradise ) 1991
• Prize for Science and the Arts of the State of Yucatán in 1993
• Juan Rulfo International Prize for narrative for Operativo en el o el trópico Arbol de la vida de Stephen Mariner, Paris, Francia Radio International 1993
• Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in 1995
• Mexican National Prize for Language and Literature 2009

Works

Poetry (selection)

• Las armas del viento Hipérion, México (1977 )
• Finisterra Premiá, México (1982 )
• Poesía (1977-1996) Editorial Aldus, México (1997)
• Los poemas de Tsin Pau et al Conaculta Chihuahua, México (2007)

Narratives (selection)

• Las llaves de Urgell Siglo XXI, Mexico (1971 )
• Operativo en el o el trópico Arbol de la vida de Stephen Mariner " Editorial Aldus, México (1994 )
• Los cuentos de gnósticos MO Mortenay " México, Seix Barral (1997)
• Nora in the German translation of Verena Teissl. In: V. T. (ed.): In the hot throat of the night. Great stories from Mexico. Publisher of social criticism, Vienna (1995 )

Novels

• Mal de piedra Premiá, México (1980 )
• Minas del Retorno Premiá, México (1981 ) and Argos Vergara, Barcelona ( 1982)
• Guerra en el Paraíso Editorial Diana México (1991 ) and Seix Barral (1997); German under the title War in Paradise in the German translation by Georg Oswald in the publishing Libertarian Association, Hamburg ( 1998)
• Los secretos informes Ed. Joaquín Mortiz, México (1999)
• Las armas del alba Ed. Joaquin Mortiz, México (2003)
• La fuga Fondo de Cultura Económica, México (2007)
• Las mujeres del alba Mondadori, México (2010)

Chronicles

• Chiapas, la rebelión indígena de México Ed. Joaquín Mortiz (1998)
• Juan López, the " Indian king" In: crossings. Literary texts to the Americas. Edited by Bernhard Widder and Rainer Vesely. Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt (2001 ), pp. 275-308 (This is the German translation of the 6th chapter of Chiapas, la rebelión indígena de México )
• La guerilla recurrente Ciudad Juárez Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez ( 1999)
• Los pueblos indios de México hoy Ed. Planeta, México (2001)
• La violencia de estado en México. Antes y después de 1968 Ed. Debate, México (2010)

Essays and anthologies of indigenous literature (selection)

• Encuentros en Oaxaca Ed. Aldus, México (1995 )
• El cuento de indígena tradición orally. Notas sobre sus fuentes y clasificaciones. CIESAS, IOC, Oaxaca (1996 )
• Arte y en el cuento trama Fondo de Cultura Económica indígena, México (1998)
• Arte y Plegaria en las lenguas indígenas Fondo de Cultura Económica de México, México (1999)
• Los Tarahumara. Pueblo de estrellas y barrancas Ed. Aldus, México (1999)
• Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos / Words of the True Peoples. Anthology of Contemporary Mexican indigenous -language Writers together with Donald Frischmann. Austin: University of Texas Press (2004-2007) Vol 1: Prose, Vol 2: Poetry, vol 3: Theatre
• La voz profunda. ANTHOLOGIA de la literatura mexicana en lenguas indígenas Ed. Joaquín Mortiz (2004)

Music

• El último romantico Globalklassics GECDI4265 (2001)
• Canciones italianas Ediciones Pentagrama (2008)
• Canciones de María Grever Ediciones Pentagrama (2008)
• Zarzuela y Cantos de España Ediciones Pentagrama (2010)
• Concierto Mexicano Ediciones Pentagrama (2010)