José Emilio Pacheco Berny audio (help·info) (June 30, 1939 – January 26, 2014)[1] was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets".[2] In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.[3]

José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco Berny in 2009
Born	José Emilio Pacheco Berny June 30, 1939 Mexico City, Mexico
Died	January 26, 2014 (aged 74) Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy

He taught at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Essex, and many others in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

He died aged 74 in 2014 after suffering a cardiac arrest.[4]

Awards

He was awarded the following prizes: Premio Cervantes 2009, Reina Sofía Award (2009), Federico García Lorca Award (2005), Octavio Paz Award (2003), Pablo Neruda Award (2004), Ramón López Velarde Award (2003), Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2004), José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (2000), National José Asunción Silva Poetry Award (1996), and Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings festival in Struga, Macedonia.[5] He was elected by unanimous acclaim to the Mexican Academy (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) on March 28, 2006. He was a member of The National College (El Colegio Nacional) since 1986.

Works

Further reading

English:

• Modern Spanish American poets. Second series / María Antonia Salgado, 2004
• José Emilio Pacheco and the poets of the shadows / Ronald J Friis, 2001
• Out of the volcano: portraits of contemporary Mexican artists / Margaret Sayers Peden, 1991
• Tradition and renewal: essays on twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture / Merlin H Forster, 1975
• The turning tides: the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco / Mary Kathryn Docter, 1991
• Jose Emilio Pacheco: Selected Poems / Ed. George McWhirter, New Directions,1987
• Time in the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco: images, themes, poetics / Judith Roman Topletz, 1983

Spanish:

• José Emilio Pacheco : perspectivas críticas / Hugo J Verani, 2006
• Ensoñación cósmica : poética de El reposo de fuego de José Emilio Pacheco / Betina Bahía Diwan, 2004
• Dilemas de la poesía de fin de siglo : José Emilio Pacheco y Jaime Saenz / Elizabeth Pérez, 2001
• José Emilio Pacheco : poeta y cuentista posmoderno / José de Jesús Ramos, 1992
• El papel del lector en la novela mexicana contemporánea: José Emilio Pacheco/ Magda Graniela-Rodríguez, 1991
• José Emilio Pacheco : poética y poesía del prosaísmo / Daniel Torres, 1990
• La hoguera y el viento : José Emilio Pacheco ante la crítica / Hugo J Verani, 1987
• José Emilio Pacheco / Luis Antonio de Villena, 1986
• Ficción e historia : la narrativa de José Emilio Pacheco / Yvette Jiménez de Báez, 1979

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to José Emilio Pacheco.

• José Emilio Pacheco at IMDb
• José Emilio Pacheco (at El Colegio Nacional)
• Essay on Pacheco from The Quarterly Conversation
• Essay on Pacheco's Batallas en el desierto
• José Emilio Pacheco recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on Jan. 16, 1976

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