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Jaime Sabines

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Haime Sabines

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1926-03-25 (Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico)
Died
1999-03-19 (Mexico City, Mexico) age 72
Nationality
Mexico
Languages
Spanish
Residence History
Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas → Mexico City

Career

Occupations
Poet, Politician
Active Years
1951-1994
Affiliations
Mexican Writers Centre

Education

National Autonomous University of Mexico
Faculty of Medicine / Medicine
Period: 3年間
Country: Mexico
Studied medicine for three years before switching to literature

Awards

Xavier Villaurrutia Award
1972
Work: Lifetime achievements
Organization: Fondo de Fomento a las Artes
Result: 受賞
Chiapas Award
1979
Organization: State of Chiapas
Result: 受賞
Elías Sourasky Award
1982
Result: 受賞
National Prize for Language and Literature
1983
Organization: Secretariat of Public Education
Result: 受賞
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor
1994
Organization: Senate of Mexico
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Bibliography

  • Horal
  • La señal
  • Adán y Eva
  • Tarumba
  • Diario semanario y poemas en prosa
  • Poemas sueltos
  • Yuria
  • Espero curarme de ti
  • Tlatelolco
  • Maltiempo
  • Algo sobre la muerte del Mayor Sabines
  • Otros poemas sueltos
  • Nuevo recuento de poemas
  • No es que muera de amor
  • Los amorosos: Cartas a Chepita
  • La luna

Translations of Works

  • Love Poems (Translated by Colin Carberry, 2011)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Chronicles the experience of everyday peopleTransforms literature into reality
Recurring Motifs
StreetHospitalPlayground

Legacy

Octavio Paz considered him “one of the greatest contemporary poets of our [Spanish] language.”

Trivia

  • Of Lebanese and Spanish descent.
  • Known as “the sniper of Literature”.