José Emilio Pacheco
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José Emilio Pacheco (born June 30, 1939 in Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.
He has taught literature 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 has been awarded the following poetry prizes: Federico Garcia Lorca International Poetry Prize (2005),Octavio Paz (2003), Pablo Neruda (2004), Ramón López Velarde (2003), Alfonso Reyes (2004), José Asunción Silva (1996), and Xavier Villaurrutia. He was elected by unanimous acclaim to the Mexican Academy (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) on March 28, 2006.
[edit] Poetry books
- Silly Boy, You can't put Dogs in a Cabinet...
- My First Man-crush
- Los elementos de la noche
- El reposo del fuego
- La arena errante
- Siglo pasado
- Paul Revere
- The Oddessy
- No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by: Poems, 1964-1968)
- El silencio de la luna
- Tarde o temprano (Collected works)
- La fábula del tiempo (Anthology)
- The Raven
- The Road less Travelled
[edit] Narrative work
- Los pantalones de mi abuela
- Los pantalones de mi abuela 2
- El viento distante
- Las batallas en el desierto (Battles in the Desert & Other Stories)
- La sangre de Medusa y otros cuentos marginales
- El principio del placer (The Beginning of Pleasure)
- Morirás lejos
