Margo Glantz

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Margo Glantz in Graz , 1999

Margo Glantz (born January 28, 1930 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is a Mexican writer , essayist and scholar.

Life

Margo Glantz was born into a family of Jewish emigrants from Russia; her father Jacobo Glantz was a writer himself, her mother Elizabeth (Lucia) geb. Shapiro died in 1997 at the age of 94.

From 1947 to 1953 Margo Glantz studied literature, theater and art history at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where she had many excellent teachers, including such important writers and philosophers as Alfonso Reyes , Julio Torri , Agustín Yáñez , Samuel Ramos and Leopoldo Zea . In 1953 she went to Paris with her then husband, Francisco López Cámara, for five years , where she obtained a doctorate in Spanish literary studies at the Sorbonne with the dissertation El exotismo francés en México (de 1847 a 1867) . Back in Mexico, she taught aesthetics, theater history, the history of Mexican literature and comparative literature at various secondary educational institutions as well as at the UNAM . In 1959 their first daughter Alina was born. She published numerous articles, reviews and theater reviews in newspapers and magazines .

In 1964 her first book, Viajes en México, Crónicas extranjeras , was published, which was based on materials that she had collected for her dissertation in Paris. In 1966 she was appointed Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the Philosophical Faculty of UNAM. In the same year she founded the magazine Punto de Partida , which she headed until 1969. During the same period, she also headed the Instituto Cultural México Israel (Mexican-Israeli Cultural Institute). In 1970 she married Luis Mario Schneider, with whom she had a daughter, Renata, who was born in 1971. In that year she was appointed full professor at Montclair State College in New Jersey and published a groundbreaking work on the history of literature entitled Onda y escritura en México, jóvenes de 20 a 33 , after which the literary tendency of the young men and women of the same name in Mexico was named. After separating from her second husband, Margo Glantz returned to Mexico in 1974, where she resumed teaching at UNAM. Her first literary work, Las mil y una calorías, novela dietética ("1001 calories, a dietary novel") appeared in 1978, followed by a number of other essays and novels. Her father died in 1982, to whom she had given literary evidence the year before with the autobiographical work Las genealogías . In 1983 she became head of the literary department of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), and a year later she received the prestigious Premio Xavier Villaurrutia literary prize for her work Síndrome de Naufragios . From 1986 to 1988 she was cultural attachée at the Mexican Embassy in London . She then returned to Mexico, where she resumed teaching at UNAM; numerous visiting professorships at various universities in the USA followed. In 1994 she was appointed Profesora Emérita at UNAM and a Council of the Humanities Fellow at Princeton University . Since 1995 she has been a full member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua .

Prizes and awards

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Novels, short stories, short stories and autobiographies

  • Las mil y una calorías , México: Premiá, 1978.
  • Las genealogías , México, Martín Casillas, 1981 (Premio Magda Donato 1982) [New editions: México, Alfaguara, 1997, Valencia (Spain), Pre-Textos, 2006, Buenos Aires, Bajo La Luna, 2010, México, Alfaguara, 2013] .
  • Apariciones , México, Alfaguara, 1996. [2. Edition: México, Alfaguara / Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2002].
  • Zona de derrumbe , Beatriz Viterbo, 2001. [2. Edition: Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo, 2006]
  • El rastro , Barcelona, ​​Anagrama, 2002. Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2003.
  • Animal de dos semblantes , Santiago de Chile, Editorial LOM, 2004 [new version of Zona de derrumbe ].
  • Historia de una mujer que caminó por la vida con zapatos de diseñador , Barcelona, ​​Anagrama, 2005 [expanded revision of Zona de derrumbe ].
  • Saña , Lima, Sarita Cartonera, 2006. [Other editions: México, Era, 2007, Valencia, Editorial Pre-Textos, 2007, Buenos Aires, Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2010]
  • Obras reunidas II: Narrativa , México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008.
  • México: el derrumbe , México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), 2010 (Colección Los gatos sabrán…).
  • Simple Perversión Oral , Ilustrado por Carmen Segovia, prólogo de Valeria Luiselli. México: UNAM, 2012 (further edition: México, La Caja de Cerillos / CONACULTA, 2015).
  • Coronada de Moscas , México, Editorial Sexto Piso, 2012 (Fotografías de Alina López Cámara).
  • Yo también me acuerdo , México, Sexto Piso, 2014.
  • La cabellera andante , México, Alfaguara, 2015.
  • Por breve herida , México, Sexto Piso, 2016.

Essays and literary criticism

  • Viajes en México. Crónicas extranjeras , México, Secretaría de Obras Públicas, 1964.
  • Tennessee Williams y el teatro norteamericano , México, UNAM, 1964.
  • Narrativa Joven de México (ed. And foreword), México, Siglo XXI, 1969.
  • Onda y escritura, jóvenes de 20 a 33 (ed. And foreword), México, Siglo XXI, 1971.
  • La aventura del Conde de Rousset Boulbon , México, SepSetenta, 1972.
  • Doscientas ballenas azules , México, La Máquina de Escribir, 1979.
  • No pronunciarás , México, Premià, 1980.
  • Repeticiones. Ensayos sobre literatura mexicana , México, Universidad Veracruzana (UV), 1980.
  • Intervención y pretexto. Ensayos de literatura comparada e iberoamericana , México, UNAM, 1981. New edition: Posdata editores, 2012
  • El día de tu boda , México, Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP) / Martín Casillas, 1982.
  • La lengua en la mano , México, Premià, 1983.
  • De la amorosa inclinación de enredarse en cabellos , México, Océano, 1984.
  • Erosiones , México, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM), 1984.
  • Síndrome de naufragios , México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1984 (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 1984).
  • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca , Notas y documentos , México, CONACULTA , 1993.
  • Esguince de cintura (ensayos sobre narrativa mexicana del siglo XX) , México, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1994.
  • La Malinche, sus padres y sus hijos , México, UNAM, 1994 [new editions: México, Taurus, 2001 and 2013].
  • Obra selecta de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (selección y prólogo de Margo Glantz y cronología y bibliografía de María Dolores Bravo Arriaga), Caracas, Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1994.
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, ¿hagiografía o autobiografía? , México, Grijalbo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma, 1995.
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: saberes y placeres , Toluca, Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura, 1996.
  • Sor Juana: La comparación y la hipérbole , Mexico, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, 2000.
  • Borrones y borradores. Ensayos sobre literatura colonial , UNAM / El Equilibrista, México, 1992 [new edition under the title La desnudez como naufragio: borrones y borradores , Madrid Iberoamericana, 2004].
  • Obras reunidas I: La literatura colonial , México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006.
  • Obras reunidas III: Ensayos sobre literatura mexicana del siglo XIX , México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010.
  • Musée du Louvre, Chaussures Peintes / Painted Shoes / Calzados Pintados / Painted Shoes , [Margo Glantz (text), Catherine Belanger (concept) & Lois Lammerhuber (photography)], Baden, Edition Lammerhuber, 2011.
  • Obras reunidas IV: Ensayos sobre literatura mexicana del siglo XX , México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013.

Translations

English

  • The Family Tree: An Illustrated Novel ; translated by Susan Bassnett . London: Serpent's Tail, 1991. [= Las genealogías ]

French

  • Les Généalogies , (trad. De Françoise Griboul), Éditions Folies D´encre, 2009. [= Las genealogías ]

Nahuatl

  • Coyolxauhqui , trad.al náhuatl de Librado Silva Galeana, Ilustraciones de María Figueroa, México, INAH / CONACULTA / Un dos tres por mí, 2008.

Italian

  • La vita è una ferita assurda , traduzione dal originale spagnolo (Messico): Michela Finassi Parolo. Firenze / Milano, Giunti Editore, 2007 (Giunti blu) [= El rastro ]

literature

  • María Dolores Bravo / Blanca Estela Treviño: Margo Glantz: 45 años de docencia . México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, 2006; ISBN 970-32-2936-0 .
  • Celina Manzoni (Ed.): Margo Glantz, narraciones, ensayos y entrevista. Margo Glantz y la crítica . Valencia: Ex cultura, 2003 (Colección Entramados); ISBN 9806647025 .
  • Julio Ortega: Taller de la escritura: conversaciones, encuentros, entrevistas . México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2000; ISBN 968-23-2214-6 . (Spanish)
  • Erna Pfeiffer : EntreVistas. Diez escritoras mexicanas desde bastidores . Frankfurt: Vervuert 1992, ISBN 3-89354-051-2 (Spanish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ María Paz Núñez. "Margo Glantz gana Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas" , La Tercera , August 18, 2015; acceso December 18, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Glantz, Margo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico