Elena Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska is the award-winning author of over fifty books. Born in France to a Mexican citizen of French ancestry, she now lives in Mexico City. In 2004, she was honored with the Legion de Honor del Gobierno de Francia. Poniatowska has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emeritus Fellowship from Mexico’s National Council of Culture and Arts. In 1979, she became the first woman to win the Mexican National Award for Journalism.
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Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska
University of New Mexico Press
The first English edition of the work of one of Mexico's most admired women writers.
- Copyright year: 2005
Tinisima
University of New Mexico Press
This fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti is a fascinating story of the complex woman caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II era.
- Copyright year: 2006
Peregrina
Love and Death in Mexico
University of Texas Press
The long-lost romantic memoir of Alma Reed, an American journalist and companion of Mexican martyr Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
- Copyright year: 2007
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