Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1 appearances
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Edition 93 (2003) Winner
Coral Bracho
コラル・ブラチョ
Koraru Buracho
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1951-00-00 （Mexico City）
- Nationality
- メキシコ, Mexican
- Languages
- Spanish
- Residence History
- Mexico City
Career
- Occupations
- poet, translator, Doctor of Literature
- Active Years
- 1977-2024
- Affiliations
- Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (National Artists’ Center)
- Memberships
- Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte
- Influenced By
- Luis de Góngora, José Lezama Lima
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize | El ser que va a morir | — | — | winner |
| 2000 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | fellow |
| 2004 | Xavier Villaurrutia Award | Ese espacio, ese jardín | — | — | winner |
| 2007 | Programa de Aliento a la Obra Literaria de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas | — | — | Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas | winner |
Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize
1981
Work:
El ser que va a morir
Result:
winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
2000
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
fellow
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
2004
Work:
Ese espacio, ese jardín
Result:
winner
Programa de Aliento a la Obra Literaria de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas
2007
Organization:
Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Peces de piel fugaz (Fish of Fleeting Skin)
1977 poetryEarly collection featuring fleeting, fluid imagery.
fluidityskinfish
Translations
- Translated into English
Bibliography
- Peces de piel fugaz
- El ser que va a morir
- Tierra de entraña ardiente
- La voluntad del ámbar
- Ese espacio, ese jardín
- Cuarto de hotel
Translations by Author
- Watersilks
Translations of Works
- Firefly under the Tongue (New Directions, 2008)
- It Must Be a Misunderstanding
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- neo-baroqueverbal luxuriancefluid syntax to conceptual clarity
- Recurring Motifs
- movement of waterpassage of time and deathtactility and sensuality
Legacy
Prominent Mexican neo-baroque poet whose works, translated by Forrest Gander, blend cosmic and intimate intelligence.
Quotes
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These poems are incandescent, submerged, sensate, intelligent in the way the universe is intelligent, at once cosmic and intimate. Coral Bracho creates a space so charmed and charged I never wanted to leave it.”
Source: Carole Maso (2008) -
Poetry may be the most immediately sensuous literary form, but its language tends to substitute for touch rather than enact it.
Source: Alan Gilbert, The Boston Review
Trivia
- Member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores since 1994