Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1 appearances
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Edition 98 (2007) Winner
Elsa Cross
えるさ・くろす
Elsa Cross
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1946-03-06 （Mexico City）
- Nationality
- Mexican
- Languages
- Spanish
- Residence History
- Mexico City
Career
- Occupations
- poet, writer, translator, philosopher, professor
- Active Years
- 1966-2024
- Affiliations
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Influenced By
- Indian philosophy
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Faculty of Philosophy and Letters | Department of Philosophy and Letters | Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters | — | Mexico |
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters
/ Department of Philosophy and Letters
Degree:
Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters
Country:
Mexico
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes | El diván de Antar | — | State of Aguascalientes | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Premio Nacional de Poesía Jaime Sabines | — | — | Government of Mexico | 受賞 |
Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes
1990
Work:
El diván de Antar
Organization:
State of Aguascalientes
Result:
受賞
Premio Nacional de Poesía Jaime Sabines
1992
Organization:
Government of Mexico
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
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Edition 68 (2016) Winner
Works
Major Works
El diván de Antar
1990 poetryBook of poems.
personal voiceLatin-American poetry
Bibliography
- Naxos
- Amor el más oscuro
- Peach Melba
- La dama de la torre
- Tres poemas
- Bacantes/Bacchae
- Canto malabar
- Pasaje de fuego
- Espejo al sol
- El diván de Antar
- Jaguar
- Casuarinas (El ala del tigre)
- Moira
- Poemas de la India
- Urracas
- De lejos viene, de lejos va llegando
- Los sueños. Elegías
- Poemas escogidos 1965-1999
- Ultramar
- El vino de las cosas: ditirambos
- La realidad transfigurada en torno a las ideas del joven Nietzsche
- Canto por un equinoccio de Saint John Perse
- El himno de las ranas
- Los DOS Jardines: Mistica y Erotismo En Algunos Poetas Mexicanos
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- complexity of thought and clarity of dictionbond of the internal with the external
- Recurring Motifs
- Indian philosophypersonal poetic voice
Legacy
According to Octavio Paz, one of the most personal voices in recent Latin-American poetry. Includes some of the most perfect poems of the last generation of Mexican writers.
Quotes
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Elsa Cross is one of the most personal voices in recent Latin-American poetry. Her work, already considerable, includes some of the most perfect poems of the last generation of Mexican writers. I say voice and not poetic writing since poetry, although written, must always be spoken. Two opposing notes reconcile harmoniously in Elsa Cross: the complexity of her thought and the clarity of her diction.
Source: Octavio Paz -
It is the bond of the internal with the external. In one direction or another, for me poetry always bridges that inside with that of the outside, is the way of passing from one to the other of these spaces, but which unites them. The internal only can expressed when reflected in that outside -that necessary knot-, the outside can be a mirror or vice versa.
Source: Elsa Cross
Trivia
- Born in Mexico City
- Mexican of English descent
- Authority on Indian philosophy