Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska was born in Paris in 1932, to a father of Polish origin and a Mexican mother, and arrived in Mexico as a child, fleeing the war. At eighteen she began at the daily Excélsior with interviews and society columns, then wrote about the poor and the excluded, in novels, reportage and essays. In 1968 she married the astronomer Guillermo Haro. She received the National Prize for Literature in 2002 and the Cervantes Prize in 2013.

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• ChronicleMassacre in MexicoLa noche de TlatelolcoElena Poniatowska · 1971Literature