Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1964) Winner
Homero Aridjis
ホメロ・アリディス
Homero Aridjis
Aliases:
Homero Aridjis Fuentes
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1940-04-06 （Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico）
- Nationality
- Mexican
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Residence History
- Michoacán, Mexico → Mexico City → Netherlands → Switzerland → Paris, UNESCO
Career
- Occupations
- poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist, ambassador, president of PEN International
- Active Years
- 1959-2024
- Affiliations
- PEN International, Group of 100
- Memberships
- Honorary member, Hellenic Authors Society
- Influenced
- Octavio Paz, Seamus Heaney
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Xavier Villaurrutia Award | Mirándola dormir | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1988 | Diana-Novedades Literary Prize | Memorias del nuevo mundo | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Grinzane Cavour Prize | 1492, Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1997 | Prix Roger Caillois | ensemble of his work as a poet and novelist | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2024 | Griffin Poetry Prize | Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence | — | — | 受賞 |
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1964
Work:
Mirándola dormir
Result:
受賞
Diana-Novedades Literary Prize
1988
Work:
Memorias del nuevo mundo
Result:
受賞
Grinzane Cavour Prize
1992
Work:
1492, Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla
Result:
受賞
Prix Roger Caillois
1997
Work:
ensemble of his work as a poet and novelist
Result:
受賞
Griffin Poetry Prize
2024
Work:
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Mirándola dormir
1964 PoetryOne of the most beautiful love poems in Spanish language.
loveeroticism
1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile
1985 NovelRecreates the woeful period of Spanish history prefiguring the discovery of America.
religious persecutionhistoryNew World
Solar Poems
2005 PoetryPoems celebrating the sun, nature, and the universe.
sunnatureuniverse
Bibliography
- Los ojos desdoblados
- Antes del reino
- Persephone
- 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile
- Solar Poems
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- visionarylyricalcrystalline
- Recurring Motifs
- natureapocalypseenvironmentmythology
Health
-
shotgun accident1940年代、10歳時Nearly lost his life at age 10, became an avid reader and began to write poetry.
Legacy
One of Mexico's leading poets and novelists, renowned environmental activist, former president of PEN International.
In Popular Culture
- Daughters Chloe Aridjis (writer) and Eva Aridjis (filmmaker).
Quotes
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In the poetry of Homero Aridjis there is the gaze, the pulse of the poet, the discontinuous time of practical and rational life and the continuity of desire and death: there is the poet's primal truth.
Source: Octavio Paz -
Homero Aridjis' poems open a door into light.
Source: Seamus Heaney
Trivia
- Father was Greek, fought in WWI and Greco-Turkish War, fled from Tire near Smyrna in Asia Minor.
- Mother grew up in Contepec during the Mexican Revolution.
- Nearly died in a shotgun accident at age 10.
- Has published 51 books of poetry and prose, translated into a dozen languages.
- Age 85 as of 2024.