Enrique Krauze
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Enrique Krauze Kleinbort (b. September 16, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican historian, essayist and publisher. He is president of the publisher Editorial Clío, the cultural magazine Letras libres, and serves in the board of directors of the Instituto Cervantes and Televisa, a Spanish-language media giant. He is the son of Helen Kleinbort Krauze, a Polish writer who worked for the newspaper Novedades de México.
Krauze received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the UNAM and a doctorate in history from El Colegio de México. In 1978, he received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has worked as a professor at the UNAM, El Colegio de México, and St. Antony's College (University of Oxford). In addition, for more than twenty years he co-edited Vuelta, a prestigious literary magazine, with Octavio Paz.
As an author, Krauze has written several books including Siglo de caudillos (for which he won the Comillas Biography Award), Biografía del poder (1987, published in English by Harper Collins as Mexico: Biography of Power) and La presidencia imperial (1997). He has also produced Mexico Siglo XX and Mexico Nuevo Siglo, two historical TV series about Mexico, on Televisa in Mexico, and for PBS in the United States.
He has been a member of the Mexican Academy of History since 1989 and a member of the National College since April 27, 2005. In 2003 he was awarded the Great Cross of Alfonso X by the Government of Spain.
He also belongs to the American-based neoconservative organization Committee on the Present Danger.
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- (Spanish) Biography at the Colegio Nacional ("National College").
- (Spanish) Biography at the Mexican Academy of History.
- Slate: He-Who-Speaks
- (Spanish) Letras Libres
- Committee on the Present Danger: Members
