José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco Berny (born June 30, 1939 in Mexico City) is a Mexican essayist, 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 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 prizes: Premio Cervantes 2009, Reina Sofía (2009), Federico Garcia Lorca (2005), Octavio Paz (2003), Pablo Neruda (2004), Ramón López Velarde (2003), Alfonso Reyes (2004), José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (2000), National José Asunción Silva Poetry Award (1996), and Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. He was elected by unanimous acclaim to the Mexican Academy (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) on March 28, 2006. He has been a member of The National College (El Colegio Nacional) since 1986.
Poetry
- Los elementos de la noche
- El reposo del fuego
- La arena errante
- Siglo pasado (Desenlace)
- 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)
- José Emilio Pacheco: Selected Poems, Edited by George McWhirter (New Directions, 1987)
- City of Memory and Other Poems, trans. David Lauer, Cynthia Steele (Collected Works)
- Irás y no volverás
- Islas a la deriva
- Desde entonces
- Miro la tierra
- Gota de lluvia y otros poemas para niños y jóvenes (Anthology)
- Álbum de zoología (Anthology)
Novel and short stories
- El viento distante y otros relatos (1963)
- Morirás lejos (1967)
- El principio del placer (1972)
- La sangre de Medusa (1977)
- Las batallas en el desierto (1981)
Further reading
English:
- Modern Spanish American poets. Second series / María Antonia Salgado, 2004
- José Emilio Pacheco and the poets of the shadows / Ronald J Friis, 2001
- Out of the volcano: portraits of contemporary Mexican artists / Margaret Sayers Peden, 1991
- Tradition and renewal: essays on twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture / Merlin H Forster, 1975
- The turning tides: the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco / Mary Kathryn Docter, 1991
- Jose Emilio Pacheco: Selected Poems / Ed. George McWhirter, New Directions,1987
- Time in the poetry of José Emilio Pacheco: images, themes, poetics / Judith Roman Topletz, 1983
Spanish:
- José Emilio Pacheco : perspectivas críticas / Hugo J Verani, 2006
- Ensoñación cósmica : poética de El reposo de fuego de José Emilio Pacheco / Betina Bahía Diwan, 2004
- Dilemas de la poesía de fin de siglo : José Emilio Pacheco y Jaime Saenz / Elizabeth Pérez, 2001
- José Emilio Pacheco : poeta y cuentista posmoderno / José de Jesús Ramos, 1992
- El papel del lector en la novela mexicana contemporánea: José Emilio Pacheco/ Magda Graniela-Rodríguez, 1991
- José Emilio Pacheco : poética y poesía del prosaísmo / Daniel Torres, 1990
- La hoguera y el viento : José Emilio Pacheco ante la crítica / Hugo J Verani, 1987
- José Emilio Pacheco / Luis Antonio de Villena, 1986
- Ficción e historia : la narrativa de José Emilio Pacheco / Yvette Jiménez de Báez, 1979
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