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Elena Poniatowska
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, 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 about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City.
BornHélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, May 19, 1932, Paris, France
OccupationJournalist, author
Spouse(s)Guillermo Haro (deceased)
ChildrenEmmanuel Haro Poniatowski (1955), Felipe Haro Poniatowski (1968), Paula Haro Poniatowska (1970)

About Elena Poniatowska

Novelist Elena Poniatowska was born in France on May 19, 1932. She's 91 years old today.

Her nonfiction work La Noche de Tlatelolco (1971), which deals with the 1968 massacre of protesting students by Mexican military and police forces, is particularly well-known.

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Elena Poniatowska before becoming famous

Elena Poniatowska was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1932 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Monkey (猴).

She began writing for the Excelsior daily newspaper in Mexico City when she was only eighteen years old.

Achievement of Elena Poniatowska

Lilus Kikusy (1954), Hasta no Verte Jesus Mio (1969), and Tinisima are among her recognized feminist books (1992). She was the fourth woman to receive the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize in Literature in 2013.

Elena Poniatowska's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She grew up in France and Mexico, the daughter of French-Polish aristocrat Jean Joseph Evremond Sperry Poniatowski and her French-born-Mexican mother Maria Dolores Paulette Amor Yturbe. She married Guillermo Haro, a Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist, and they had three children: Emmanuel, Felipe, and Paula.

Elena Poniatowska on Social Media

Elena Poniatowska's news on her Twitter: @eponiatowska.

Elena Poniatowska Collabed with

Her essay Las Siete Cabritas (2000) focuses on Painter Frida Kahlo and six other prominent Mexican women from the twentieth century.

Elena Poniatowska Income & Net worth

Elena Poniatowska's income mainly comes from the work that created her reputation: a novelist. Information about her net worth in 2024 is being updated as soon as possible by allfamous.org, you can contact to tell us Net Worth of the Elena Poniatowska.

Elena Poniatowska Height and Weight

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Latest information about Elena Poniatowska updated on March 16 2023.