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Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska

Actor · b. 1932 · France

Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.

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  • Movie6.6

    El camino de Xico

    Xico's Journey

    2020 · 108 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.6
  • Movie

    Cien años con Juan Rulfo

    One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

    2017

  • Movie5.7

    Pedro

    2022 · 3 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie7.9
  • Movie6.2

    Hecho en México

    Made in Mexico

    2012 · 24 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Ana. Sem Título

    Ana

    2020 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Asaltar los cielos

    1996 · 5 votes

  • Movie

    El caos y el orden: Manuel Felguérez y su obra abstracta

    Chaos and Order: Manuel Felguérez and His Abstract Work

    2016

  • Movie6.6

    La Muñeca Tetona

    The Busty Doll

    2017 · 5 votes

  • Movie8.5
  • Movie10.0

    Leonora Carrington - El juego surrealista

    Leonora Carrington - The Surrealist Game

    2012 · 1 votes

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