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Elena Poniatowska

Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco (The night of Tlatelolco, the English translation was entitled "Massacre in Mexico") about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.


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Born:
May 19, 1932 In France
Movie/TV Credits:
12
First Appeared:
In the movie Asaltar los cielos 1996-11-11
Latest Project:
Series Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados 2023-04-18
Known For
Poster of Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados
Poster of Pedro
Poster of Ana
Poster of Asaltar los cielos
Filmography
Series Ven Acá... con Eugenia León y Pavel Granados Self 2023-04-18
Movie Pedro Self 2022-10-25
Movie Ana Escritora (México) 2020-10-02
Movie Xico's Journey Cuca (voice) 2020-11-12
Movie The Busty Doll 2017-08-20
Movie Between Cuba and Mexico, Everything is Bonito & Sabroso 2016-01-29
Movie Chaos and Order: Manuel Felguérez and His Abstract Work 2016-12-15
Movie Alaide Foppa Falla, The Unfortunate One 2014-11-06
Movie Tina Modotti: Dogma and Passion Herself 2013-08-02
Movie Made in Mexico Self 2012-09-21
Movie El Santos vs la Tetona Mendoza Self / Additional Voices (voice) 2012-11-30
Movie Asaltar los cielos 1996-11-11