José Gorostiza

José María Gorostiza Alcalá ( born November 10, 1901 in San Juan Bautista, today Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, † March 16, 1973 in Mexico City) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He was a member from 1928 to 1931 for the group of poets Contemporáneos and in 1954 was elected a member of the Mexican Academy of the Language.

Life

His brother was the dramaturg Celestino Gorostiza. José María Gorostiza Alcalá attended school in Querétaro and Aguascalientes then the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (Mexico) in Mexico City and the Colegio Francés de Mascarones. In 1925 he wrote his first book of poems. He held a degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM). In 1929 he was a professor of literature at the UNAM. In 1932 he became Professor of modern history at the Escuela Normal Superior ( México ) in 1927, he was accredited at the embassy in London in the pay of a chancellor first class. From 1932 to 1935 he was employed by the Secretaría de Educación Pública. From 1935 to 1937 headed the public relations for the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores ( SRE). In 1937 he was accredited to the Embassy in Copenhagen in the pay of Secretary to the third class. From 1937 to 1939 he was private secretary to the Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay. From 1939 to 1940 he was accredited to the Embassy in Rome in the pay of Secretary to first class. From 1940 to 1944 he was accredited to the Embassy in Havana, where he was in 1942 promoted to Cosejero. In 1944, he headed the department policy in the SRE and in 1945 the Council of the delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco, even at the first meeting of the United Nations in 1946 in New York, he was there. In 1947 he was a delegate to the Conference of Rio de Janeiro, in 1948 a delegate to the Inter-American Conference in Bogota. From 1950 to 1951 he was ambassador to the Netherlands and Greece. From 1951 to 1953 he was Nachrück representative of Mexico for Luis Padilla Nervo on the changing seat in the UN Security Council. In 1964 he was State Secretary in the SRE. From 1965 to 1970 he headed the Comisión Nacional de Energia Nuclear ( CNEN )

Awards

Works and editions

  • Canciones para cantar en las barcas, 1925
  • Muerte sin fin, 1939
  • Poesía: Notas sobre poesia and Poema Del Frustrado, 1964
  • Prose, essays, 1969
United Nations Security Council Integrated Authority File
452924
de