Elena Garro- Notable Biographies

(1920/12/11 - 1998/08/22)

Elena Garro
Mexican writer

He was born on December 11, 1920 in Puebla (Mexico). Daughter of Spanish father and Mexican mother.
He married Octavio Paz, whom he accompanied in 1937 to Spain at the II International Congress of writers in defense of culture. His daughter Elena was born in 1948. Between 1951 and 1954 he resides in Japan.
In 1954 wrote scripts for films like you come only at night, based on the short story "the fault lies with the Tlaxcalans" and Las señoritas Vivanco among others. It brings together his first plays in a solid home (1958).
From 1959 to 1963 he lives in New York, back to Mexico, and in 1964 received the premio Xavier Villaurrutia for his novel memories of the future. Author of the tales of the week of colors (1964). Felipe Ángeles (1979) recounts an episode from the Mexican Revolution little analyzed; Y Matarazo no called (1991) the Union fight human trafficking. We're fleeing Lola (stories, 1980) deals with the figure of her daughter.
Elena Garro died in Cuernavaca on August 22, 1998.