Francisco de AsÃs Monterde GarcÃa Icazbalceta (August 9, 1894 in
Mexico City â€" February 27, 1985 in Mexico City) was a prolific and
multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He
was an important promoter of the arts and culture in Mexico in the
years following the Revolution.His parents were Francisco de AsÃs
à ngel MarÃa Monterde y Adalid and MarÃa Trinidad de los Dolores
GarcÃa Icazbalceta y Travesi de Monterde, aristocrats who both died
when he was still young.[1] He studied dentistry but never practiced.
In 1924 he founded and edited the short-lived Mexican avant-garde
cultural magazine Antena. In 1925 he famously deciphered a letter that
conquistador Hernán Cortés left written in code. He wrote, in
addition to plays and poetry, various novels set in colonial Mexico, a
genre known as colonialista. In 1930 he created in conjunction with
Alejandro Gómez Arias, the department of Mexican and Hispano-American
Literature at the National Preparatory School. He was a founding
member in 1938 of the Asociación Mexicana de CrÃticos de Teatro
(AMCT). He belonged to the "grupo de los siete autores" (group of
seven authors), a circle of dramatists active in the 1950s who revived
the theatrical arts in Mexico. He was an admirer of José Juan Tablada
and an imitator of the latter's haiku-inspired poetry (a style at the
time referred to as haikai). He held important posts in the Ministry
of Public Education. He was from 1922-65 a professor of Spanish and
Latin-American literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM), his alma mater (M.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1942). He served as
subdirector of the Biblioteca Nacional de México; as head librarian
of the Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia (1931); and as
director of the Imprenta Universitaria de la UNAM (UNAM University
Press). He was director of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores from
1973-85.Monterde was a numerary member (seat 2) of the Academia
Mexicana de la Lengua and served as its director from 1960-72.(list
not comprehensive)
Mexico City â€" February 27, 1985 in Mexico City) was a prolific and
multifaceted Mexican writer whose career spanned over fifty years. He
was an important promoter of the arts and culture in Mexico in the
years following the Revolution.His parents were Francisco de AsÃs
à ngel MarÃa Monterde y Adalid and MarÃa Trinidad de los Dolores
GarcÃa Icazbalceta y Travesi de Monterde, aristocrats who both died
when he was still young.[1] He studied dentistry but never practiced.
In 1924 he founded and edited the short-lived Mexican avant-garde
cultural magazine Antena. In 1925 he famously deciphered a letter that
conquistador Hernán Cortés left written in code. He wrote, in
addition to plays and poetry, various novels set in colonial Mexico, a
genre known as colonialista. In 1930 he created in conjunction with
Alejandro Gómez Arias, the department of Mexican and Hispano-American
Literature at the National Preparatory School. He was a founding
member in 1938 of the Asociación Mexicana de CrÃticos de Teatro
(AMCT). He belonged to the "grupo de los siete autores" (group of
seven authors), a circle of dramatists active in the 1950s who revived
the theatrical arts in Mexico. He was an admirer of José Juan Tablada
and an imitator of the latter's haiku-inspired poetry (a style at the
time referred to as haikai). He held important posts in the Ministry
of Public Education. He was from 1922-65 a professor of Spanish and
Latin-American literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM), his alma mater (M.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1942). He served as
subdirector of the Biblioteca Nacional de México; as head librarian
of the Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia (1931); and as
director of the Imprenta Universitaria de la UNAM (UNAM University
Press). He was director of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores from
1973-85.Monterde was a numerary member (seat 2) of the Academia
Mexicana de la Lengua and served as its director from 1960-72.(list
not comprehensive)
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