Sergio Galindo (September 2, 1926 – January 3, 1993) was a Mexican

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and

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writer. He was born in

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in the

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, a region of Mexico that figures prominently in much of his writing. His most widely acclaimed novels are ''El Bordo'' (“The Precipice”, 1960) and ''Otilia Rauda'' (1986), the latter filmed as ''La Mujer del Pueblo'' in 2001. Galindo studied at the Mexican National Autonomous University (

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) and in Paris. He was the founder and first director of the

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Press, where he also founded and edited the journal ''La Palabra y el Hombre'' (“The Word and the Man”). Galindo was Director of the ''

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'' ( National Institute of Fine Arts) from 1974 to 1976.

Prizes, honours and translations

Galindo was awarded the following prizes and honours: Honorary Officer of the

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, Polish award for Cultural Merit, Order of the Star of Yugoslavia, Mariano Azuela Prize, the Bellas Artes Literature Prize, the Xavier Villarrutia Prize and the

José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares or simply Premio José Fuentes Mares) is a Mexican literary award that has been presented annually since 1985 by the Universidad Autónoma ...

. He was elected to the Mexican Academy of the Language in 1975 and to the

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the following year. In 2006, the University of Veracruz and it
International University Book Festival
inaugurated an annual prize for first novels by Latin American writers, called the ''Premio Latinoamericano de Primera Novela Sergio Galindo''. His works have been translated into English, French, Polish, German and Italian.

Novels

* ''Polvos de arroz'' (translated into English as “Rice Powder”), 1958 * ''La justicia de enero'', 1959 * ''El Bordo'' (translated into English as “The Precipice”), 1960 * ''La comparsa'', 1964 * ''Nudo'', 1970 * ''El hombre de los hongos'', 1976 (

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in 1980) * ''Los dos ángeles'', 1984 * ''Declive'', 1985 * ''Otilia Rauda'' (translated into English as “Otilia’s Body”), 1986
filmed
in 2001)

Short story collections

* ''La máquina vacía'', 1951 * ''¡Oh hermoso mundo!'', 1975 * ''Este laberinto de hombres'', 1979 * ''Cuentos'', 1982 * ''Terciopelo violeta'', 1985 ;Other writing * ''Cartas a mi padre'', 2007 (published posthumously)

References

External links

International University Book Festival

La Palabra y el Hombre blog

Veracruz University Press
{{DEFAULTSORT:Galindo, Sergio Mexican male novelists Mexican male short story writers Mexican short story writers Writers from Veracruz Writers from Palm Springs, California Members of the Mexican Academy of Language 1926 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Mexican male writers 20th-century Mexican novelists 20th-century short story writers Honorary Members of the Order of the British Empire