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Elena Poniatowska (born May 19 1932 in Paris, France as Princess Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor) is a Polish-Mexican journalist and author.
Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Evremont Poniatowski Sperry and Paula Amor-Escandon. Her father was a Polish nobleman who was a direct descendant of King Stanislaus II of Poland, the last king of Poland. Her mother was a Mexican citizen of mixed French ancestry.
Poniatowska fled France with her mother from World War II. The family settled in Mexico City. In 1949 Elena was sent to study to the United States. She returned to Mexico in 1953 and started her career as journalist working for the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.
She is best known for her 1971 work La noche de Tlatelolco (published in English as Massacre in Mexico), in which she relates her interviews with survivors and families of those who died in the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City. Since then, her literary career has dwindled, while her prominence as a political figure in Mexico has increased.
Since 2005 Poniatowska has been an active supporter of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. On April, 2006 she appeared in a series of television commercials denouncing the attempts of the other two major parties, particularly the National Action Party, to link López Obrador to leftist President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.AccomplishmentsWorks
- 1954 - Lilus Kikus (Collection of Short Stories)
- 1969 - Hasta no verte, Jesus mío (Novel)
- 1971 - La noche de Tlatelolco, about the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre (Historic Account)
- 1980 - Fuerte es el silencio (Historic Account)
- 1988 - La flor de lis (Novel)
- 1988 - Nada, nadie. Las voces del temblor, about the 1985 Mexico City earthquake (Historic Account)
- 1991 - Tinísima (Novel)
- 1997 - Paseo de la Reforma (Novel)
- 2001 - La piel del cielo (Novel)
- 2003 - Tlapalería (Collection of Short Stories)
- 2006 - El tren pasa pimero (Novel)
Awards
- Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (declined, 1971)
- Premio Nacional de Periodismo (1979)
- Premio Alfaguara de Novela (2001)
- Legion de Honor del Gobierno de Francia (2004)
- Lifetime Achievement Award, International Women's Media Foundation (2006)
Other
Further reading
- Daniel Balderston, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003, Routledge (2004), ISBN 0415306876 - pp.446-8
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