Elena Poniatowska

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Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska (audio ), received as inheritance the title of Princess of Poland and due to her ideas, she is also known as The Red Princess.

Elizabeth 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 evolved to writing 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.

She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.

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Career

Poniatowska has published books, non-fiction books, journalistic papers, as well as many forewords and prologues to books about Mexican artists. A large portion of her writing has concentrated on social and human rights, particularly those relating to women and the poor.

Poniatowska began her writing career in 1953 with the newspaper Excélsior and the following year with a magazine called Novedades de México, which she also writes for. Her first writing assignments consisted of interviews of influential people and society columns relevant to Mexico's upper crust. The ambassador of the United States appeared in her first published interview. She began "like a donkey" after learning nothing and working on the job. She first appeared under the French name Hélene but later changed it to Elena or even using Anel. Poniatowska wrote Lilus Kikus, her first book in 1954, and since then her career has been a blend of journalism and creative writing. Despite that the decades from the 1950s and 1970s provided few opportunities for women, she eventually moved from interviews and society reports to literary profiles and stories about social issues. Despite being referred to as "Elenita" (little Elena) and her work often dismissed as "nave interviews and "children's" literature, she rose as a subtly present female voice in a patriarchal society. She learned by perseverance rather than by direct confrontation.

Poniatowska's most popular writing has been "testimonial narratives," writings that are based both on historical facts and accounts of people who are not widely distributed in the media. After a trip to Lecumberri, a historic former jail, for the interview of many imprisoned railway workers who had gone on strike, she began writing on social issues. Prisoners were eager to discuss and tell their life stories, according to Sherif. In 1994, she interviewed Subpoena Marcos. The bulk of this research has been collected into seven volumes, including Todo México (1991-1989), Domingo siete (1982) and Palabras cruzadas (1961). La noche de Tlatelolco, she's most well-known book of this type, contains the testimonies of the victims of the 1968 student massacre in Mexico City.

Poniatowska is one of the founders of La Jornada newspaper, Fem, a feminist magazine, Siglo XXI, a publishing house, and the national film institute Cineteca Nacional.

Starting in the 1990s, Poniatowska's works have been translated into Polish, French, Danish, and German. Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street has been translated into Spanish by her. Meles y Teleo apuntes comedia comedia, a year after son Emmanuel's birth. In 1997, Arturo Ripstein's De noche vienes ("You Come by Night") was turned into a feature film starring Mara Rojo and Tito Vasconcelos.

Poniatowska gives presentations both nationally and abroad, and she is often asked for talks and seminars in the United States. Octavio Paz and artist Juan Soriano's biographies have also appeared in journals.

Poniatowska is considered Mexico's "grande dame" of letters today, but she hasn't been recognized around the world like other popular Latin American writers of her generation. She has also not been fully integrated in Mexico's elite, never receiving diplomatic recognition, like Carlos Fuentes, and turning down political positions, nor has she spent much time in Mexico's elite literary circles. Fuentes also stated on this that she was too occupied in the city's slums or grocery shopping for groceries to have time for him and others. Although she admits that such remarks are out of context, she maintains that it proves that they regard her more of a maid, a chef, or even a janitor in the "great House of Mexican Literature" than an janitor.

She has been teaching a weekly writing workshop for more than thirty years. Silvia Molina and Rosa Nissán are among a generation of Mexican writers influenced by her writings through this and other initiatives.

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