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Biography

Born to a Spanish father and Mexican mother, Elena Garro was born in Puebla in 1920. She spent her childhood in Mexico City but moved to Iguala, Guerrero, during the Cristero War. She studied literature, choreography and theater in the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. While she lived in Mexico City she met Octavio Paz, whom she married in 1938. They had a daughter, Helena. They later divorced in 1959. The Mexican state of Puebla is located in the center of the country, to the east of Mexico City. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Nickname: Motto: Capital en movimiento Location of Mexico City in south central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... The historic city of Iguala is located 102 km (63 mi) from Chilpancingo in the State of Guerrero via federal highway 95 in Mexico. ... Guerrero is a state in the United Mexican States. ... The struggle between church and state in Mexico broke out in armed conflict during the Cristero War (also known as the Cristiada) of 1926 to 1929. ... UNAM redirects here. ... Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

After the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre, she accused certain Mexican intellectuals of being responsible of instigating the students and later abandoning them. These accusations caused resentment in the intellectual community who repudiated her. In 1972, Garro left the country and lived in exile in France for twenty years. A 1978 silkscreen poster by Rini Templeton and Malaquías Montoya created to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the massacre. ...

When she returned to Mexico she lived in Cuernavaca with her daughter and 37 cats^{[citation needed]}. She suffered from lung cancer due to smoking and Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) covered her medical expenses. She later died from this illness. Cuernavaca is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. ... Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) is, in Mexicos government, the cabinet member in charge of national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts (visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic); and managing the national archives. ...

Her work touches on the themes of the marginalization of women and racism. This article is about the sociological concept. ... This box:      Racism has many definitions, the most common and widely accepted is that members of one race are intrinsically superior or inferior to members of other races. ...

Literary career

Due to the overshadowing of Octavio Paz's figure, Garro did not have much recognition while she was alive. Some critics consider her to be the second most important Mexican female writer (the first being Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz).^{[citation needed]} Other critics say she is the precursor to magical realism due to her published novel Los recuerdos del porvenir four years before Gabriel García Márquez released Cien años de soledad. Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Sor Juana (12 November 1651 (or 1648, according to some biographers) – 17 April 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez, was a self taught Mexican scholar, nun, and writer of the... Magic Realism (or Magical Realism) is an illustrative or literary technique in which the laws of cause and effect seem not quite to apply in otherwise real world situations. ... Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, also known as Gabo (born March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Magdalena) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish title: Cien años de soledad) is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. ...

Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares, published in 1940 a short theatrical piece by her , Un hogar sólido, in the second edition of the Antología de la literatura fantástica (Anthology of fantastic literature). Borges redirects here. ... Silvina Ocampo (1903 - 1994) was a prominent Argentine intellectual and poet. ... Adolfo Bioy Casares (September 15, 1914 - March 18, 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer. ...

Works

Theater

• Felipe Ángeles (1979)
• Un hogar sólido (1958)
• Los pilares de doña Blanca
• El rey mago
• Andarse por las ramas
• Ventura Allende
• El encanto
• Los perros
• El árbol (1963)
• La dama boba
• El rastro
• Benito Fernández
• La mudanza
• Parada San Ángel
• La señora en su balcón. (1994 ISBN. 968-856-379-X)
• Coca Cola
• Sócrates y los gatos. (2003. ISBN 970-651-708-1)

Novels

• Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963)
• Testimonios sobre Mariana (1981)
• Reencuentro de personajes (1982)
• La casa junto al río Grijalbo (1983)
• Y Matarazo no llamó (1991)
• Inés
• Busca mi esquela
• Primer amor
• Busca mi esquela & Primer amor (ISBN 968-7415-36-3)
• Un traje rojo para un duelo (1996 ISBN 968-7415-51-7)
• Un corazón en un bote de basura (1998. ISBN 968-27-0672-6)
• Mi hermanita Magdalena (1998 ISBN 970-20-0062-9)
• La vida empieza a las tres. (1997 ISBN 968-7415-91-6)

Short stories

• La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas
• La semana de colores (1964 ISBN 968-419-882-5)
• Andamos huyendo Lola (1980)
• El accidente y otros cuentos inéditos

Biographies

• Memorias de España 1937. México: Siglo Veintiuno, 1992. ISBN 968-23-1827-0

News report

• Revolucionarios mexicanos

Awards

• Award Xavier Villaurrutia (1963)
• Award Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1996)
• Award Grijalbo (1989)

Sor Juana (12 November 1651 (or 1648, according to some biographers) – 17 April 1695), also known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz or, in full, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramírez, was a self taught Mexican scholar, nun, and writer of the...

Further reading

(Spanish)

• La doble memoria de la loca. Sergio Callao en Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. Lima-Hanover 2001
• Melgar, Lucía; Gabriela Mora: Elena Garro: lectura múltiple de una personalidad compleja. Puebla: Benemérita Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, 2002. ISBN 968-863-628-2
• A different reality: Studies on the work of Elena Garro, ed. by Anita K. Stoll. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1990.ISBN 0-8387-5166-0
• Rosas Lopátegui, Patricia: Yo sólo soy memoria: biografía visual de Elena Garro. Mexico: Ed. Castillo, 2000. ISBN 970-20-0088-2
• Rosas Lopátegui Patricia: "Testimonios sobre Elena Garro". Biografía exclusiva y autorizada de Elena Garro, Monterrey, México, Ediciones Castillo, 2002. ISBN 970-20-0285-0
• Rosas Lopátegui Patricia: "El asesinato de Elena Garro. Periodismo a través de una perspectiva biográfica", México, Porrúa, 2005. ISBN 970-07-6159-2
• Winkler, Julie A.: Light into shadow: marginality and alienation in the work of Elena Garro. New York; Vienna: Lang, 2001. (Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures; 76 ) ISBN 0-8204-4071-X