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Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska ( audio ⓘ ), 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.
May 19, 2017 · Poniatowska is a princess of Polish, Italian, French, Russian, American and Mexican pedigree. She is often somewhat embarrassed by her own, as she puts it, ‘absurd nobility’, and she looks for redemption for her socialite ancestors in caring for the disadvantaged, so tortured by their cursed history.
Mar 14, 2023 · The influential author and journalist has chronicled every major social movement in Mexico for decades. Still working at 90, she's sought out by a new generation.
Oct 31, 2023 · “I have one good eye,” said Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, 91, when I interviewed her at her home in Mexico City in March 2023 for the Library of Congress’ PALABRA Archive. Poniatowska, who is tiny, wore a grey track suit, her white curls framing her face like a halo.
Poniatowska developed ties with the Mexican lower class in her youth and thus gained a sense of belonging to and an understanding of the Mexican culture. She felt and thought of herself as completely Mexican and of Spanish as her native language.
Elena Poniatowska was born in France, in 1933. Her mother was the daughter of wealthy Mexican aristocrats and her father, a French count of Polish origin. In 1942, Poniatowska and her...
Elena Poniatowska is a Mexican writer of Polish descent, known for her fiction and nonfiction based on interviews with marginalized people. She talks about her influences, her craft, and her life in this in-depth conversation with Stephen Kurtz.
