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Isabel Fraire

イサベル・フライレ

Isabel Fraire

Aliases: Isabel Fraire Benson

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1931-12-08 (Mexico City, Mexico)
Died
2015-04-05 (Mexico City, Mexico) age 84
Nationality
Mexican
Languages
Spanish, English

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, translator, literary critic, literature professor
Active Years
1959-2015
Affiliations
Editorial board of the Revista Mexicana de Literatura

Education

National Autonomous University of Mexico
Philosophy and Letters / Literature
Country: Mexico
Later became a professor of Literature

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship
1973
Organization: Guggenheim Foundation
Result: 受賞
Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1978
Work: Poemas en el regazo de la muerte
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Sólo esta luz

1969 Poetry

Poems celebrated for its exquisite images of natural beauty

natural beauty

Poemas en el regazo de la muerte

1977 Poetry

Bibliography

  • 15 poemas
  • Sólo esta luz
  • Isabel Fraire, poems
  • Poemas en el regazo de la muerte
  • Un poema de navidad para Alaíde Foppa
  • Puente colgante. Poesía reunida
  • Kaleidoscopio insomne. Poesía reunida

Translations by Author

  • Translations of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, etc.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
exquisite images of natural beauty

Legacy

One of the prominent members of her generation of literary figures in Mexico. Poems celebrated for exquisite images of natural beauty.