Biography
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
Filmography
all 23
Movies 21
self 14
TV Shows 2
Writer 2
Voice 1
Booklovers (2023)
Pedro (2022)
Xico's Journey (2020)
Ana (2020)
El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza (2012)
The Storm That Swept Mexico (2011)
Asaltar los cielos (1996)
La muchacha (1990)
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Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1932-05-19 (93 years old)
Birth Name
Hélène Louise Paula Poniatowski
Birth Place
Paris,
Father
Jean Joseph Évremond Sperry Poniatowski
Citizenships
, Mexico
Awards
Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, National Prize for Arts and Sciences, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Maria Moors Cabot prize, IWMF Lifetime Achievement Award, doctor honoris causa from the University of Pau, honorary doctor of Paris 8 University, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, honorary doctorate, José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature, Premio Nacional de Periodismo de México, Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language, Guggenheim Fellowship, Alfaguara Prize, Rómulo Gallegos Prize
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