José Emilio Pacheco
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) is a Mexican essayist, novelist and short story
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writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.
He has taught at UNAM
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, as well as the University of Maryland, College Park
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, the University of Essex
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, and many others in the United States
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, Canada
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and the United Kingdom
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.
He has been awarded the following prizes: Premio Cervantes 2009, Reina Sofía
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(2004), José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature
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(2000), National José Asunción Silva Poetry Award (1996), and Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. He was elected by unanimous acclaim to the Mexican Academy (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
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) on March 28, 2006. He has been a member of The National College (El Colegio Nacional) since 1986.
Poetry
- Los elementos de la noche
- El reposo del fuego
- La arena errante
- Siglo pasado (Desenlace)
- No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by: Poems, 1964-1968)
- El silencio de la luna
- Tarde o temprano (Collected works)
- La fábula del tiempo (Anthology)
- José Emilio Pacheco: Selected Poems, Edited by George McWhirter (New Directions, 1987)
- City of Memory and Other Poems, trans. David Lauer, Cynthia Steele (Collected Works)
- Irás y no volverás
- Islas a la deriva
- Desde entonces
- Miro la tierra
- Gota de lluvia y otros poemas para niños y jóvenes (Anthology)
- Álbum de zoología (Anthology)
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)
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
External links
- José Emilio Pacheco (at El Colegio Nacional)
- Essay on Pacheco from The Quarterly Conversation
- http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/msem.2011.27.2.431 Essay on Pacheco's Batallas en el desierto.