Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 â€" August 22, 1998) was a Mexican
screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist.
She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism
movement, though she rejected this affiliation. She is a recipient of
the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.Elena Garro was born in Puebla,
Mexico to a Spanish father and a Mexican mother, the third of five
children. She spent her childhood in Mexico City but moved to Iguala,
Guerrero, during the Cristero War. She studied literature,
choreography and theater in the National Autonomous University of
Mexico in Mexico City, where she was an active member of Julio
Bracho's theatre group. She married Octavio Paz in 1937 and began a
career in literature and theater. Garro's fiction explored political
and social causes related to life in Mexico. Her citizenship status
and focus on Indian rights aroused controversy in Mexico. After her
divorce from Paz in 1959, Garro spent time in seclusion between Madrid
and Paris in Europe until moving back to Cuernavaca, Mexico in
1994.[1]
screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, short story writer, and novelist.
She has been described as the initiator of the Magical Realism
movement, though she rejected this affiliation. She is a recipient of
the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.Elena Garro was born in Puebla,
Mexico to a Spanish father and a Mexican mother, the third of five
children. She spent her childhood in Mexico City but moved to Iguala,
Guerrero, during the Cristero War. She studied literature,
choreography and theater in the National Autonomous University of
Mexico in Mexico City, where she was an active member of Julio
Bracho's theatre group. She married Octavio Paz in 1937 and began a
career in literature and theater. Garro's fiction explored political
and social causes related to life in Mexico. Her citizenship status
and focus on Indian rights aroused controversy in Mexico. After her
divorce from Paz in 1959, Garro spent time in seclusion between Madrid
and Paris in Europe until moving back to Cuernavaca, Mexico in
1994.[1]
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