José Emilio Pacheco
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.jpg) Pacheco in 2009 | |
| Born | José Emilio Pacheco Berny 30 June 1939 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Died | 26 January 2014 (aged 74) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| Occupation | Writer |
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| Children | 2 |
José Emilio Pacheco Berny Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.[3]
He taught at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Essex, and many others in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
He died aged 74 in 2014 after suffering a cardiac arrest.[4]
Awards
He was awarded the following prizes:
El Colegio Nacional
) since 1986.
Works
Poetry
- Los elementos de la noche (1963)
- El reposo del fuego (1966)
- No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (1970)
- Irás y no volverás (1973)
- Islas a la deriva (1976)
- Desde entonces (1979)
- Los trabajos del mar (1983)
- Miro la tierra (1987)
- Selected Poems, ed. George McWhirter (1987, in English)
- Ciudad de la memoria (1990)
- El silencio de la luna (1996)
- City of Memory and Other Poems, trans. David Lauer, Cynthia Steele (1997, in English)
- La arena errante (1999)
- Siglo pasado (2000)
- Tarde o temprano: Poemas 1958-2009 (2009, Complete Poetry)
- Como la lluvia (2009)
- La edad de las tinieblas (2009)
- El espejo de los ecos (2012)
Novel and short stories
- El viento distante y otros relatos (1963)
- Morirás lejos (1967)
- El principio del placer (1972)
- La sangre de Medusa (1977)
- Las batallas en el desierto (1981)
- Battles in the Desert & Other Stories, trans. Katherine Silver (1987, in English)
Further reading
English:
- Modern Spanish American poets. Second series / María Antonia Salgado, 2004
- José Emilio Pacheco and the poets of the shadows / Ronald J Friis, 2001
- Out of the volcano: portraits of contemporary Mexican artists / Margaret Sayers Peden, 1991
- Tradition and renewal: essays on twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture / Merlin H Forster, 1975
- The turning tides: the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco / Mary Kathryn Docter, 1991
- Jose Emilio Pacheco: Selected Poems / Ed. George McWhirter, New Directions,1987
- Time in the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco: images, themes, poetics / Judith Roman Topletz, 1983
Spanish:
- José Emilio Pacheco : perspectivas críticas / Hugo J Verani, 2006
- Ensoñación cósmica : poética de El reposo de fuego de José Emilio Pacheco / Betina Bahía Diwan, 2004
- Dilemas de la poesía de fin de siglo : José Emilio Pacheco y Jaime Saenz / Elizabeth Pérez, 2001
- José Emilio Pacheco : poeta y cuentista posmoderno / José de Jesús Ramos, 1992
- El papel del lector en la novela mexicana contemporánea: José Emilio Pacheco/ Magda Graniela-Rodríguez, 1991
- José Emilio Pacheco : poética y poesía del prosaísmo / Daniel Torres, 1990
- La hoguera y el viento : José Emilio Pacheco ante la crítica / Hugo J Verani, 1987
- José Emilio Pacheco / Luis Antonio de Villena, 1986
- Ficción e historia : la narrativa de José Emilio Pacheco / Yvette Jiménez de Báez, 1979
References
- ^ "Jose Emilio Pacheco dies at 74; one of Mexico's foremost writers". Los Angeles Times. 27 January 2014.
- ^ "José Emilio Pacheco - Biography". International Literature Festival Berlin. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ Woolls, Daniel (30 November 2009). "Cervantes Literary Award Goes To Mexican Pacheco". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ^ "jose-emilio-pacheco-muere".
- ^ "José Emilio Pacheco". Struga Poetry Evenings. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to José Emilio Pacheco.
- José Emilio Pacheco at IMDb
- José Emilio Pacheco (at El Colegio Nacional)
- Essay on Pacheco from The Quarterly Conversation
- Essay on Pacheco's Batallas en el desierto
- José Emilio Pacheco recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on Jan. 16, 1976
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