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Edition 7 (1967) Winner
Salvador Novo
サルバドル・ノボ
Sarubadoru Nobo
Aliases:
Salvador Novo López
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1904-07-30 （Mexico City）
- Died
- 1974-01-13 （Mexico City） age 69
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Languages
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholic
- Residence History
- Mexico City
Career
- Occupations
- writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, official chronicler of Mexico City
- Active Years
- 1925-1974
- Affiliations
- Los Contemporáneos, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
- Memberships
- Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
La estatua de sal
1945 novelSemi-autobiographical novel depicting Mexico City's gay community.
homosexualityMexican societyurban life
Bibliography
- XX Poems
- New Love
- Mirror
- Seamen Rhymes
- Romance of Angelillo and Adela
- Proletarian Poems
- Never ever
- A Poem
- Chosen Poems
- Our Land
- Florido laude
- The Salt Statue
- Eighteen Sonnets
- Satire
- Poetry
- Short History of Coyoacán
- Gastronomic History of Mexico City
- Image of a City
- Mexico City in 1867
- History and Legend of Coyoacán
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- modernistsatirical
- Recurring Motifs
- homosexualityMexico City lifehistory
Legacy
Influenced popular perceptions of politics, media, arts, and Mexican society as a member of Los Contemporáneos.
In Popular Culture
- Compared to Oscar Wilde for flamboyant style
Trivia
- Openly homosexual in machismo Mexico.
- Fought and arrested with Luis Spota.
- Dyed hair carrot color and wore ostentatious suits in later life.