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José Gorostiza Alcalá (10 November 1901 – 16 March 1973) was a Mexican poet, educator, and diplomat. For his achievements in the poetic arts, he was made a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.

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José Gorostiza
Born	José Gorostiza Alcalá (1901-11-10)10 November 1901 Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Died	16 March 1973(1973-03-16) (aged 71) Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Occupation	Poet, educator, diplomat
Language	Spanish
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Period	1925–1969
Genre	Poetry, essay
Literary movement	Los Contemporáneos
Notable works	Canciones para cantar en las barcas Muerte sin fin
Notable awards	Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes 1968

Biography

José Gorostiza was born in the riverine city of Villahermosa, then known as San Juan Bautista, to Celestino Gorostiza and Elvira Alcalá de Gorostiza. He was a descendant of the Spanish playwright Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza.[1] His younger brother Celestino would also become an important artist. He moved to Mexico City to attend the National Preparatory School and later the Colegio Francés de Mascarones. After graduating from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, he worked first as a professor at his alma mater and then at the National School of Teachers in 1932.

After teaching followed a series of important administrative jobs in the government: head of the Department of Fine Arts at the Secretariat of Public Education (1932-1935) and head of the Department of Publicity at the Secretariat of Foreign Relations (1935-1937). Subsequently, he served in various diplomatic and ambassadorial capacities, including: Director General of Political Affairs at the Secretariat of Foreign Relations, Director General of the Diplomatic Service (Secretariat of Foreign Relations) (1944), Ambassador to Greece (1950-1951), Secretary of Foreign Relations (1964), and head of the National Commission of Nuclear Energy (1965-1970).

Literary endeavors

Between 1928 and 1931, he was part of the influential vanguardist group Los Contemporáneos, to which Jorge Cuesta, Salvador Novo, Gilberto Owen, Carlos Pellicer, Jaime Torres Bodet, and Xavier Villaurrutia also belonged. His literary output, though sparse, was rich in content. His first book of poetry, Canciones para cantar en las barcas (Songs to Sing on Boats), appeared in 1925. After a lull of fourteen years came what is considered his masterpiece, Muerte sin fin (Death without End). In 1964, he published Poesía (Poetry), a collection of his previously published work plus a section dedicated to unfinished pieces called Del poema frustrado (Of the Frustrated Poem). In 1969, he published a book of essays titled Prosa (Prose).

On May 14, 1954, he was elected a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, at the occasion of which he read an essay entitled "Notas sobre poesía" ("Notes on Poetry"). On March 22, 1955, he became a numerary member of the same and held seat 25. He died, aged 71, in Mexico City.

Awards

• National Prize for Arts and Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) (1968)
• Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria (1958)[2]

Selected published works

• Canciones para cantar en las barcas, 1925
• Muerte sin fin, 1939
• Poesía: Notas sobre poesía, Canciones para cantar en las barcas, Del poema frustrado, Muerte sin fin, 1964
• Prosa, 1969
• Epistolario, 1918-1940. Edited by Guillermo Sheridan, 1988
• Poesía completa. Edited by Guillermo Sheridan, 1996

See also

• Rosario Castellanos
• Carlos Fuentes
• Octavio Paz
• Sergio Pitol
• Alfonso Reyes

References

Bibliography

• Camp, Roderic Ai, Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993. The Hague: Mouton, 1993.
• Cortés, Eladio, Dictionary of Mexican Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
• (in Spanish) Xirau, Ramón, Tres poetas de la soledad. Mexico: Ant. Libr. Robredo, 1955.

External links

• Selections from Death without End at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009)
• (in Spanish) José Gorostiza
• (in Spanish) Selección de poemas

На других языках

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- [en] José Gorostiza

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[es] José Gorostiza Alcalá

José Gorostiza Alcalá (San Juan Bautista, hoy Villahermosa, Tabasco, 10 de noviembre de 1901 – Ciudad de México, 16 de marzo de 1973) fue un poeta y diplomático mexicano. Al servicio del Estado mexicano durante la mayoría de su vida en varios cargos gubernamentales o diplomáticas, formó también parte del grupo de la revista literaria Contemporáneos (1928-1931) y fue elegido miembro de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua en 1954.

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[ru] Горостиса, Хосе

Хосе Горостиса Алькала (исп. José Gorostiza Alcalá, 10 ноября 1901, Сан Хуан Баутиста, в настоящее время Вильяэрмоса — 16 марта 1973, Мехико) — мексиканский поэт, преподаватель, дипломат.

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