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Mary Helen Ponce, author of The Wedding (1989) and the collection Taking Control (1987) [1] Estela Portillo Trambley (1936–1998), author of Trini (1986), the play The Day of the Swallows (1971) and the collection Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings (1975) for which she became the first woman to receive the Quinto Sol Literary Prize. [1]
Inés Arredondo (1928–1989), Mexican writer, one of the most influential Mexican writers; Elena Arizmendi Mejia (1884–1949), autobiographer, feminist, established the Neutral White Cross; Concepcion Cabrera de Armida (1862–1937), mystic, religious writer, author of I Am: Eucharistic Meditations on the Gospel
Félix Ramos y Duarte (1848–1924), Cuban-born educator, textbook writer, lexicographer, compiled the first dictionary of Mexican Spanish; Roberto Ransom (born 1960), Irish Mexican novelist and short story writer ; José Revueltas Xavier Villaurrutia Award; Alfonso Reyes National Prize; Vicente Riva Palacio; Margarita Peña; Eduardo Ramos ...
[10] Paredes highlights the significance of Josephina Niggli's 1945 novel, Mexican Village, which was "the first literary work by a Mexican American to reach a general American audience." [10] Many different genres of Mexican American literature, including narrative, poetry, and drama, now have a wide popular and critical presence.
In 1997, Jiménez published his first autobiographical short novel, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (Cajas de Carton, Spanish edition). [ 9 ] [ 14 ] This book documents his early life, from crossing the border as a child to attending elementary school and working in the fields. [ 14 ]
Américo Paredes (September 3, 1915 – May 5, 1999) was an American author born in Brownsville, Texas who authored several texts focusing on the border life that existed between the United States and Mexico, particularly around the Rio Grande region of South Texas. His family on his father’s side, however, had been in the Americas since 1580.
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Her mother was sister of Mexican musician Belisario de Jesús García, author of popular Mexican songs such as Las Cuatro Milpas. Jurado's cousin Emilio Portes Gil was President of Mexico (1928–1930). [1] Jurado lived her first years and studied at a school run by nuns in the Guadalupe Inn neighborhood of Mexico City. She later studied to be ...