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Poemas. Xavier Villaurrutia
UNAM
Xavier Villaurrutia (Ciudad de México, 1903-1950). Escritor, poeta, dramaturgo, guionista y crítico literario. Realizó estudios de teatro en el Departamento de Bellas Artes y en la Universidad de Yale, becado por la Fundación Rockefeller. Junto con Carlos Pellicer Cámara, Jaime Torres Bodet, José Gorostiza y Jorge Cuesta, entre otros, formó el grupo Los Contemporáneos. Aficionado al arte dramático e importante promotor del teatro experimental en México, fundó el Teatro Ulises y el Teatro de Orientación, así como la revista Ulises, junto con Salvador Novo. Tradujo la obra de autores como William Blake y Anton Chéjov. Es autor de los libros de poesía Reflejos (1926), Nocturno mar (1927), Nostalgia de la muerte (1939), Décima muerte y otros poemas no coleccionados (1941) y Canto a la primavera (1948). También escribió obras de teatro como Parece mentira (1934), ¿En qué piensas? (1938), La hiedra (1941) y El solterón (1950), entre otras. Dama de cor
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Xavier Villaurrutia Award
Mexican literary prize
The Xavier Villaurrutia Award (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia) is a prestigious literary prize given in Mexico, to a Latin American writer published in Mexico. Founded in 1955, it was named in memory of Xavier Villaurrutia.
Multiple awards have been given in some years. No award was made in 1968, when it was suspended in recognition of the imprisonment of José Revueltas who had won the award in 1967.
Recipients of the award
[edit]- 1955: Juan Rulfo, for Pedro Páramo (novel)
- 1956: Octavio Paz, for El arco y la lira (essay)
- 1957: Josefina Vicens, El libro vacío (novel)
- 1958: no award
- 1959: Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, for Delante dem la luz cantan los pájaros (poetry)
- 1960: Rosario Castellanos, for Ciudad Real (novel)
- 1961: no award
- 1962: no award
- 1963
- 1964: Homero Aridjis, for Mirándola dormir (poetry)
- 1965: Salvador Elizondo, for Farabeuf (novel)
- 1966: Fernando sektion Paso, for José Trigo (novel)
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Villaurrutia, Nostalgia, and the Gendering of Modernity
Kent Dickson California State Polytechnic University, Pomona April 20, 2007 Villaurrutia, Nostalgia, and the Gendering of Modernity Modernity emerged in Mexico, as elsewhere, accompanied bygd nostalgia. No sooner had the Revolution demarcated the modern than writers, filmmakers and painters began constructing Mexican modernity as a movement against a nostalgically invoked pre-revolutionary past which was, furthermore, clearly gendered as feminine. Woman came to embody a non-alienated, non-fragmented wholeness or “mythic plenitude, against which is etched an overarching narrative of masculine development as self-division and existential loss,” in Rita Felski’s words—and that narrative was, of course, the narrative of the Revolution (38). Against this background Xavier Villaurrutia published Nostalgia de la muerte (1938), a book deeply imbued with modern nostalgia. The book, however, altered the standard paradigm. For Villaurrutia