Juan García Ponce

Juan García Ponce (September 22, 1932 – December 27, 2003) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator and critic of Mexican art.

Juan García Ponce (1981).

Life and works

He was born in Mérida, state of Yucatán, Mexico. Notable works include La aparición de lo invisible (1968) and Las huellas de la voz (1982). In his novels Figura de paja (1964), La casa en la playa (1966), La presencia lejana (1968), La cabaña (1969), La invitación (1972), El nombre olvidado (1970), El libro (1978), Crónica de la intervención (1982), Inmaculada o los placeres de la Inocencia (1989) he intertwines the erotic with philosophic rigor and the aesthetic, illuminating the secret, demonic side of reality, accepting all of its risks.

He formed an important part of the Generación de Medio Siglo, or the Generación de la Ruptura, along with writers such as José de la Colina, 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 Garcia 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 (or Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature) (2001)[1] and the Medalla Eligio Ancona.[2]

In 2007 the journal Nexos asked various writers and literary critics to select the greatest Mexican novels of the last 30 years. Juan Garcia Ponce’s novel Crónica de la intervención came in third place.[3]

Awards

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-11-13. Retrieved 2015-06-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Medalla Eligio Ancona para Juan García Ponce. Archived 2015-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Eligen las tres mejores novelas mexicanas de los últimos 30 años". Eluniversal.com.mx. Retrieved 7 August 2018.

Bibliography
  • Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl: Mexico's Ruins: Juan García Ponce and the Writing of Modernity. State University of New York Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7914-6943-9


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