Francisco Monterde
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Francisco de Asís Monterde García Icazbalceta (b. Mexico City
, August 9, 1894—d. Mexico City, February 27, 1985) was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican
writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He was an important promoter of the arts and culture in Mexico in the years following the Revolution
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Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, August 9, 1894—d. Mexico City, February 27, 1985) was a prolific and multifaceted Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He was an important promoter of the arts and culture in Mexico in the years following the Revolution
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution...
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Awards
- Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (1975)
Published works
(list not comprehensive)- Los virreyes de la Nueva España. Síntesis de la época colonial (1922)
- Itinerario contemplativo (1923)
- En el remolino: drama (1924)
- La hermana pobreza : novela mexicana inédita (1925)
- Manuel Gutierrez Nájera (1925)
- La que volvío a la vida (comedia en tres actos) (1926)
- Oro Negro (1927)
- Amado Nervo (1929)
- Antología de poetas y prosistas hispanoamericanos modernos (1931)
- Bibliografía del teatro en México (1933)
- Don Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1939)
- Navarrete y sus Poesias profanas (1939)
- Guillermo Prieto y la "Musa callejera (1940)
- Algunos puntos oscuros en la vida de Salvador Díaz Mirón (1940)
- Fábulas sin moraleja y finales de cuentos (1942)
- El pensamiento de Bolívar (1943)
- Novelistas hispanoamericanos (del prerromanticismo a la iniciación del realismo) (1943)
- Proteo : fábula (1944)
- Cultura mexicana aspectos literarios (1946)
- Anales de los Xahil de los indios Cakchiqueles (other contributors: Georges Raynaud; Miguel Ángel AsturiasMiguel Ángel AsturiasMiguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and diplomat...
; J. M. González de Mendoza; Francisco Hernández Arana Xajila; Francisco Díaz Gebuta Queh) (1946) - Moctezuma: el de la silla de oro (1947)
- Chapultepec: poema (1947)
- La careta de cristal: comedia en tres actos (1948)
- Tres comedias : Apostolado en las Indias y martirio de un cacique, Si el amor excede al arte, ni amor ni arte a la prudencia, La pérdida de España (Eusebio Vela; Jefferson Rea Spell; Francisco Monterde) (1948)
- Una evasión romántica de Fernando Calderón : [discurso de recepción como académico de número en la Academia Mexicana] (1952)
- Dos comedias Mexicanas (1953)
- Teatro indígena prehispánico (Rabinal AchíRabinal AchíThe Rabinal Achí is a Maya theatrical play performed in Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala. Its original name is Xajooj Tun meaning, Tun Dance. Rabinal Achí is a dynastic Maya drama from the fifteenth century and a rare example of pre-Hispanic traditions...
) (1955) (editor) - Teatro mexicano del siglo XX (1956) (co-written with Manuel José OthónManuel José OthónManuel José Othón was a poet, playwright, and Mexican politician. One of his most famous works is Idilio salvaje considered one of the most representative poems of Mexico....
) - Salvador Díaz Mirón: documentos, estética (1956)
- Presente involuntario : evocación dramática en tres entrevistas (1957)
- La dignidad de don Quijote (1959)
- Cuaderno de estampas (1961)
- Netsuke haikai (1962)
- Sakura, tercinas del Oriente Remoto (1963)
- Una moneda de oro y otros cuentos (1965)
- Moctezuma II, Senor del Anahuac (1966)
- Historia de la literatura española, e Historia de la literatura mexicana (1966) (co-written with Guillermo Díaz-Plaja)
- Momentos de Oaxaca (1967)
- El madrigal de Cetina (1968)
- 18 novelas de "El Universal ilustrado" 1922-1925 (1969)
- Páginas escogidas (relatos, estampas, narraciones, cuentos, novela y novela corta) (1969)
- Cortejo de sombras (1971)
- Diccionario Porrúa de la lengua española (1972)
- Mariano Azuela y la crítica mexicana : estudios, artículos y resenas (1973)
- Aspectos literarios de la cultura mexicana : poetas y prosistas del siglo XVI a nuestros días (1975)
- Cumbres de la poesía mexicana en los siglos XIX y XX (1977)
- El temor de Hernán Cortés: y otras narraciones de la Nueva España (1980)
- Salvador Díaz Mirón, el hombre y su obra (1984)
External links
- (English) Francisco Monterde
- (Spanish) http://www.proceso.com.mx/hemerotecainterior.html?nta=88475&avz=2Noventa años de Francisco Monterde por José Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio Pacheco Berny 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....
] - (Spanish) Necrología de Francisco Monterde en El Pais