Juan García Ponce facts for kids
Juan García Ponce (September 22, 1932 – December 27, 2003) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator and critic of Mexican art.
Life and works
García Ponce was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. His most notable works include La aparición de lo invisible (1968) and Las huellas de la voz (1982). .....
He formed an important part of the Generación de Medio Siglo, or the Generación de la Ruptura, along with writers such as Salvador Elizondo, Inés Arredondo, Sergio Pitol and Elena Poniatowska, and artists and painters such as Manuel Felguerez, Vicente Rojo Almazán, José Luis Cuevas, Roger von Gunten, and Fernando García Ponce.
He received various prestigious prizes including the Premio Teatral Ciudad de México (1956), the Xavier Villaurrutia Award (1972) for his novel Encuentros, the Elías Sourasky Prize (1974), the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo (1981), the Premio de la Crítica (1985), the National Prize for Arts and Sciences in Linguistics and Literature (1989), the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages (then known as the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature) (2001) and the Medalla Eligio Ancona.
In 2007 the journal Nexos asked various writers and literary critics to select the greatest Mexican novels of the past 30 years. Juan García Ponce's novel Crónica de la intervención came in third place.
Awards
- Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1972)
- Premio Anagrama de Ensayo (1981)
- Juan Rulfo Prize (2001)
See also
In Spanish: Juan García Ponce para niños
