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Salvador Novo López (30 July 1904 – 13 January 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, television presenter, entrepreneur, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. As a noted intellectual, he influenced popular perceptions of politics, media, the arts, and Mexican society in general. He was a member of Los Contemporáneos, a group of Mexican writers, as well as of the Mexican Academy of the Language.

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Life & career

Novo defied the machismo and conservative Catholicism prevalent in 20th century Mexican culture by making almost no efforts to conceal his sexuality.[1]

He was, however, accepted by the Mexican government. He held official posts related to culture, was elected to the Mexican Language Academy, and had a television program on Mexico City's history. Towards the end of his life, he dyed his hair a bright carrot color and wore many ostentatious rings and colored suits. He has been compared to Oscar Wilde, but unlike Wilde, Novo never suffered the setback of scandal or persecution and remained an accepted and respected member of society and governmental circles until his death. In fact, some sectors resented the fact that a gay writer would align himself so closely with the government and media after the repression of social movements in the 1960s and 1970s.

He was well known for his wit. When a party, where young soldiers had been invited by gay scholar friends of his, had degenerated into a fight and a scandal, Salvador Novo brushed off the whole matter with a factual: "This is what happens when members of the intellectual elite try to enter military circles".^{[citation needed]}

In accordance with tradition, the street on which he lived was renamed after him when he assumed the role of Mexico City's official chronicler, a post held for life.^{[citation needed]}

Tribute

On July 30, 2014, Google showed a Doodle celebrating what would have been his 110th birthday.[2]

Works

Theatre

Within a 1,000-sq.m.-land purchased in 1950, Salvador Novo decided to build, with the aid of architect Alejandro Prieto, the cultural project "La Capilla", for which purpose he adapted an old chapel as a theatre, which was inaugurated on 22 January 1953. Currently, this set also includes a small restaurant, "El Refectorio", as well as a theatre-bar "El Hábito".[3]

• Don Quijote (1947)
• Astucia (Witness) (1948)
• La culta dama (1948) (The Wise Lady; it was used to write the script of a homonym Mexican film, directed in 1957 by Rogelio A. González Jr.[4]
• A ocho columnas (Eight Columns) (from 1953 on)
• Diálogos (Dialogues)
• Yocasta o casi (Yocasta or Almost)
• Cuauhtémoc (Cuauhtémoc)
• La guerra de las gordas (The War of the Fat Ones)
• Ha vuelto Ulises (Ulises is back)
• El sofá (The Sofa)
• El espejo encantado (The Enchanted Mirror)

References

На других языках

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- [en] Salvador Novo

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[es] Salvador Novo

Salvador Novo López (Ciudad de México; 30 de julio de 1904 — Ciudad de México; 13 de enero de 1974), conocido como Salvador Novo, fue un poeta, ensayista, dramaturgo e historiador mexicano, miembro del grupo «Los Contemporáneos» y de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.[1] Su característica principal, como autor, fue su prosa hábil, rápida, así como su picardía al escribir. Carlos Monsiváis dijo de él que era «el homosexual belicosamente reconocido y asumido en épocas de afirmación despiadada del machismo».[2]

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[ru] Ново, Сальвадор

Сальвадо́р Но́во Лопес (исп. Salvador Novo López; 30 июня 1904 (1904-06-30), Мехико — 13 января 1974, Мехико) — мексиканский поэт и прозаик, журналист, историк, видный участник группы Современники.

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